On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:37:44AM +0100, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote
> Well, yes, it may be faster a bit, like 1%, maybe 10%??? But if one distro
> would be unbearable slow, gentoo would be too. It won't just be faster
> 10 times, and yes, that 10% are nice, but not usually worth switching
> your
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:05:26AM -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>> I have to disagree with this. I used to use Mandrake and Gentoo is a
>> *LOT* faster than Mandrake. I turned off a lot of unused services and
>> Mandrake was still pretty slow. This is especia
Hello,
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:05:26AM -0600, Dale wrote:
> I have to disagree with this. I used to use Mandrake and Gentoo is a
> *LOT* faster than Mandrake. I turned off a lot of unused services and
> Mandrake was still pretty slow. This is especially true if you
> customize all the flags
On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Dale wrote:
> > Use the Live CD if you want to get a working machine quickly. If
> > watching gcc output scroll off the screen turns you on (it does for
> > most of us around here) then use the minimal by all means.
> >
>
> This is true. Gentoo updates pretty fas
Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>
> Sorry, but that's never a good reason for using Gentoo. If a binary
> distro compiles every option under the sun then the software will still
> work, but the binaries might be a bit big. Compiling on your machine
> gives no discernable performance benefit for the avera
On Monday 19 February 2007, Mike Adolf wrote:
> I have been using Linux for several years, but am new to gentoo. I
> just got a new dell xps 410 system with a intel duo E6400 processor.
> I have tried all the distros I've used in the past, kubuntu, suse,
> mandriva. All had problems serious enough
Thomas Lingefelt wrote:
> < snip >
>
>
> As to the medium. I use the minimal personally. The Live has an
> automated installer but I've never been able to get it to work.
>
> Read this, it will be your best friend during the install...
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml
>
> Hope
Mike Adolf wrote:
> I have been using Linux for several years, but am new to gentoo. I just
> got a new dell xps 410 system with a intel duo E6400 processor. I have
> tried all the distros I've used in the past, kubuntu, suse, mandriva.
> All had problems serious enough to not use them. The pr
I have been using Linux for several years, but am new to gentoo. I just
got a new dell xps 410 system with a intel duo E6400 processor. I have
tried all the distros I've used in the past, kubuntu, suse, mandriva.
All had problems serious enough to not use them. The problems may stem
from usi
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