[ltp] Re: Preferred distro for Thinkpads?

[Daniel Pittman]

Dillon Lawson <dillon@phasefour.net> writes:

> I second Gentoo as the best os for a Thinkpad, it has the best support 
> with forums and wiki's.  Installing Gentoo really lets you know 
> _everything_ about your system.  

I am, personally, unconvinced that watching software compile grants any
sort of magical knowledge of how it operates, or the best way to
configure it. ;)

> Tho the install is time consuming but once thats done it will be
> faster then any Thinkpad using binary packages out there.  Who know
> where those Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, or Suse packages were built.....

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?

       Daniel