On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 02:18, Jesse Keating wrote: > The problem, is that each level of optimization you go up, your system becomes > exponentially more unstable. Ask any gentoo user, and they'll brag about how > fast their system boots up. Boots up? I worry about that once a month or > so, when kernel errata is released. Gentoo users are usually a daily > occurrence when dealing with top level optimizations.
My coworker installed Gentoo on something like 8 or 10 machines at his house and work. I tried it on my main workstation. I don't recall him telling me he had any lockups. I had one, and that was when I was trying to get the nvidia drivers working. I gave up on that, because when they don't work right, they'll bring _any_ distro down. (Don't tell me they won't. I've rebooted my Red Hat boxes waaayyyy too many times because of those infernal drivers.) My latest instability is getting a network connection to my Tungsten through my Phoebe3 box. More than half the time when I go to connect the thing on the USB port, I lockup either the Tungsten, the PC, or both. I have been holding my tongue, thinking this was a new issue because there aren't many people trying this, or, hey, after all, this is a beta. But it's annoying nevertheless. (And it's doing it to two different machines, so I don't think it's hardware related.) Just remember that everyone's mileage may vary. ;-) dk -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
