031128 Vano Beridze wrote: > I have AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB RAM > I installed gentoo from stage 1 (took 1 day) What a surprise: > On the same machine with RedHat 9 (i386 packages) > NetBeans 3.5.1(sun jdk 1.4.2_02) runs faster. > I switched to gentoo because I wanted faster and customized system. > But If I see that Gentoo does not perform better > unfortunately I will have to try Fedora :( > Please help me to stay
i have a similar machine & no complaints re sloth. the idea of Gentoo is not so much to maximise program performance as to give the user his/her own custom system, ie a "meta-distribution". a/a RH you get the advantages of Portage vs RPM & you install just what you want, not 2,5 GB pgms you never use; also, the method of managing services etc is much more elegant & dox are generally comprehensive & very well-written; there's also a large, knowledgeable & friendly gang of users Worldwide w an excellent Forum as well as this mailing-list. just see what Linux Weekly News had to say last week! -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
