<quote who="David Liu Lau"> > I think I need that level of customisation that Gentoo offers, even if its > painful. A hand-tuned system is much more likely to satisfy me, and once > installed shold be blazing fast. Thanks for the feedback anyways.
A surprising number of ex-Gentoo users have tried Ubuntu and expressed with sheer horror that it runs faster than their fully-self-compiled systems. It is not entirely surprising to the rest of us, but it tends to shatter their perspective on software in an amusing manner. What you get with Gentoo is the administrative hassle of having to know which bits of software should be compiled against which to provide which features, and unnecessarily long package installation times, due to 'lazy compilation'. Sometimes, these can provide a slim benefit, but more often than not, they are premature optimisations that have significant ongoing costs. (*phew*...) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australia http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ "Boys will be boys, hackers will be hackers, geeks will be geeks, and cyberpunks will always just be ravers with Macintoshes." - Monkey Master, Crackmonkey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
