[ltp] Re: Preferred distro for Thinkpads?

[Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 10:57 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Have you actually /measured/ a performance difference between Gentoo
> packages and packages compiled on Debian, Fedora, etc, or do you simply
> assume that they are faster?

Fedora's packages are optimized for i686 these days - and most of these
can be recompiled using whatever optimizations you like by rebuilding
the source RPM.  Controlling which parts of a package get built may be
much easier with Gentoo, though it's certainly not impossible with
Fedora.

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