I rather enjoyed Gentoo. It used less power on my laptop, and was faster on my desktop, and only installed EXACTLY what I wanted.<br><br>The only reason I switched to Ubuntu was because it would be easier to "sell" to customers, and I believe I should use what I sell.<br>
<br>After the initial install, upgrading was easy, and and not time consuming at all (I did it in the background while I used my computer).<br><br>I actually spend about the same amount of time maintaining my Ubuntu install, due to liking to keep the newest version installed.<br>
<br>Ubuntu 32 is designed to run on an i386 processor, but it's optimized for i686. If you're running it on a Q6600, the speed can be notable. There is much less of a speed increase on the 64 bit side of things, so it's rarely worth it.<br>
<br>Shawn<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:34 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It's for our equivalent of a car enthusiast, who spends hours and hours souping up and customizing his car. Nothing wrong with that; just recognize the fact.<div class="im">
<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Nate Duehr" <<a href="mailto:nate@natetech.com" target="_blank">nate@natetech.com</a>><br>To: "CLUE technical discussion" <<a href="mailto:clue-tech@cluedenver.org" target="_blank">clue-tech@cluedenver.org</a>><br>
</div><div class="im">Sent: Monday, January 4, 2010 12:18:19 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain<br>Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Gentoo<br><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">Been there, done that... have the "I was a short-lived Gentoo fanboi"<br>
sticker and logbook sign-off.<br><br>It may be a few percentage points faster than the same apps compiled<br>without optimizations, but the time you'll waste constantly re-building<br>for security patches for everything under the Sun, will eat any<br>
productivity gains you think you'll get from it.<br><br>Cheaper/faster to just put a faster CPU in the machine(s). Seriously. <br><br>Oh and like everything else, sooner or later someone makes a mistake on<br>the dev team. In packaged distros this usually means the package won't<br>
install. On a distro that requires you rebuild all dependencies<br>(sometimes), sometimes the broken part is an install script that totally<br>screws up multiple things on the system.<br><br>Gentoo is for people who like to waste large amounts of time. At the<br>
end of the day, if you wanna get something actually done -- stick with a<br>pre-built binary-based distro.<br><br>My opinion, anyway...<br><br>--<br> Nate Duehr<br> <a href="mailto:nate@natetech.com" target="_blank">nate@natetech.com</a><br>
<br>On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:33 -0700, "Jason Ash" <<a href="mailto:wizardofki@gmail.com" target="_blank">wizardofki@gmail.com</a>><br>wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> As some of you know, I tried out LFS last fall. While this was a great<br>
> learning experience, sorting out and installing all of the<br>> dependencies for things like KDE was a headache. Not to mention I<br>> couldn't get KDE to work. Four valid reasons to do LFS (IMHO) are:<br>
> 1) The learning experience (the best reason)<br>
> 2) Specific custom requirements (not me)<br>> 3) Exercising technical know-how (not yet there)<br>> 4) Micromanagement of your OS (I won't)<br>> <br>> I remember someone saying at one of our meetings that he uses Gentoo<br>
> because it's optimized and he never has to upgrade (since portage is<br>> always up-to-date). So, I just got finished installing the Gentoo base<br>> system, and I'm installing the KDE4 meta-package. The nice thing about<br>
> Gentoo is that it automatically downloads all the needed dependencies<br>> in addition to the requested package and compiles them from source.<br>> I'm using -O2 and pentium4 optimizations. So far, KDE4 in its entirety<br>
> has taken 26 hours to download and compile. I'll let you know how it<br>> goes and if it's faster.<br>> <br>> Thanks,<br>> Jason Ash<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> clue-tech mailing list<br>
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