On Monday 09 July 2001 01:51, mjevans1983011 wrote: > I think the topic says most of what I want. > > For the first time in about 5 years I am expecting to get (build for my > self in this case) a new computer system. With modern hardware packages > can be compiled in a length of time where it is not unreasonable to expend > a little more time up front and compile them per CPU. I'd love to have > binaries optimized exactly for what my CPU was made with. Extra cache for > example might be better optimized for if the kernel on up were at least > compiled with it in mind. I wouldn't actually know my self but it seems to > make sense to me. > > Anyway; is this possible? Can I just put in a boot disk/cd and have all my > packages compiled on my system to its exact abilities? If yes, which > download is it for debian? >
Well, not that automatically. You can always apt-get -b source package to automatically download the source and compile it (and the pentium-builder package is supposed to automatically force optimizations for you) but you'll need a base system installed first. I guess you could slowly replace all your default installed packages with more robust, faster ones. --Brendan
