However... I used the test script found here http://www.xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/sultra_skami.html
on the Mobile Pentium 4 1600 MHz with Gentoo installed. THe script completed in 17 seconds , with some apps running. Comparing this to other reports, my 1600 MHz with Gentoo on it is as good as a Athlon XP 2600+ (Barton), 1900MHz with RedHat 8 on it, and one second faster than a Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.80GHz with Debian on it. I'm not saying that this is a true test of performance (I believe that there is no such thing), but at least in this case, the "myth" does seem to have SOME merit. I should add that I have not spent lots of time configuring stuff for speed, only a healty set of USE settings and compiling for pentium 3 with -O3. No pre-linking (that I know of). I should perhaps also add that these numbers mean absolutelly NOTHING on a MythTV box. In my experience, HD speed is the bottleneck.. I use the laptop for scientific calculations, and that is a totally different story. MythTV ( and even more so IVTV ) users should choose Gentoo beacause of the flexibility of Portage. /Fredrik On 11/9/05, Fredrik Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/5/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > I agree. Gentoo should be used so that you would not have to worry > about the current maintainer of some binary package somewhere > uncluding the specific options you would want to have in a specific > program. I have > 1 year experience (each) with Debian, Mandrake and > Red Hat, but I'll have to say that I have had less problems with > Gentoo than any of the others. (I have used Gentoo for 2 years now, I > think.. don't really know exactly..) > > I know that the kompile time is annoying but there are binary packages > in Gentoo too, and you'll have to weigh the compile time in installing > the thing against the swearing that will go on when you realise that > the revision information on some package you installed from the 'Net > does not worka and will cause you to have to uninstall loads of > packages and then reinstalling and re-configuring them. > > Sorry about the rantish post, but I got a flash back of past temper > outbursts.. :-) > > Choose whatever you like and accept the downsides. > > /Fredrik > > -- > My Gentoo + PVR-350 + IVTV + MythTV blog is on > http://gentoomythtv.blogspot.com/ > -- My Gentoo + PVR-350 + IVTV + MythTV blog is on http://gentoomythtv.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users