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 you can. I suspect he will see a speed > difference. Plus he will know what is being installed and why. Gentoo > IMHO beats Mandrake and others by a long shot.
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 distro. Have a nice day -- Q: Why was Stonehenge abandoned? A: It wasn't IBM compatible. Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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