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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