On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:38:05 -0500 Myth Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, I exagerated the amount of time a bit :) But even over night is > unacceptable to me given the 'little' performance improvement you get. The performance "improvement" is pretty much a myth (no pun intended). The beauty of gentoo is in it's package management and flexibility. The conventional wisdom at present seem to be that you might notice a performance improvement on very low end hardware, but on modern hardware the performance difference alone is not worth a pinch of s***. portage and the ebuild system are very lfexible and IMHO ideal for a moderately experienced linux user to build a myth box with. Its not a religious war though. > > It took me about half an hour to install a functional Debian (or > variant) install with Gnome, etc. When I installed Gentoo on the same > box, I saw little to no performance improvements. Personally, its not > worth it -- If I want to use something bleeding edge, then I will > compile it. Otherwise the packages put out by Debian work just fine for me. > Debian also has good package management, although I don't know how well it goes on compiling with options other than the defaults provided by the debian packagers.
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