[ltp] Gentoo

[Michael W. Holdeman]

Actually I've been using Gentoo begining on my TP 600, and now on my TP21 for 
at least a year now. The build takes some time but the result is well worth 
it. My 600 could even run KDE 3, and tyhe speed was very tolerable!

Mike

On Friday 03 October 2003 03:39 pm, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 19:23:21 +0200
>
> Buchan Milne <bgmilne@cae.co.za> wrote:
> > Gentoo has two advantages over Redhat (we're talking defaults):
> >
> > 1)Optimisation
> > 2)Package management
> >
> > Mandrake has about the same optimisations that you would be willing to
> > use on a Gentoo box (the rest make very little difference), and has
> > urpmi for managing packages (no reason to compile dependencies when
> > urpmi will just install them for you instead ...).
>
> For that matter, so does Red Hat.  If you want more optimization, rpmbuild
> --rebuild is your friend.
>
> Red Hat users can also use apt, of course.  See http://freshrpms.net/
>
> > Of course, if you just want to be l337, and be happy that you *must* be
> > more efficient since you spent a solid week compiling packages, then
> > there is no choice, you have to run a source-based distro.
>
> Those source-based distros are for those with fast machines and big hard
> disks. We laptop users score low on both scales. :)
>
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> *  Charles Taylor <tomalek@mindspring.com>
> *  Chemistry teacher, Linux enthusiast!
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> *  Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/
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