[SATLUG] Re: Gentoo: What's all the fuss about?

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From: satlug-bounces at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-bounces at satlug.org] On Behalf
Of Eric Hobbs
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:50 AM
To: The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List
Subject: [SATLUG] Re: Gentoo: What's all the fuss about?

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 17:18, Greg Willden wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:46:00 -0500, Paul S. Bains <slacker at satx.rr.com>
wrote:
> > My nice, lean Slack box runs rather briskly, thank you...:-)
> > 
> 
> Yeah.  I'll second that but for Debian.
> I installed a few machines from the latest Knoppix and you've got a
> great Debian system in 20 minutes.  I don't think the extra time
> waiting for compiles is worth it.
> 
> I'll pass.
> Greg Willden (trying out my Gmail account)
> _______________________________________________


Yeah, there are some on the Gentoo forums who play up the ability to
tweak the compiler optimizations ("d00DZ! mY c0mP1ler fL4Gs R @ -O48.
pH3Ar Me!") but I figure any speed increases you might get after
optimization are negated by the time spend compiling. While the ability
to do that stuff is nice, it was the ease of package management and
system maintenance that really drew me in.   The documentation is
continually getting better, too.

--Eric

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>--Eric

Hehe, my bad I'm late on the convo. Work has been hectic lately.
Chris