Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
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On Wednesday 20 November 2002 9:50 am, Andrew Lau wrote:
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> Whenever someone rants about Gentoo's processor optimisations
> and states some overinflated performance boost such as 10%-20%, all I
> can do is make a a feeble rebuttal stating that it's more like (insert
> low figure without much solid evidence - e.g.. 5%) with exceptions
> such as glibc, X, multimedia applications, mozilla and OpenOffice. So
> then they counter that it's still an increase. Ok, so what strengths
> does Debian have to make a comeback with? Unlike Gentoo, Debian has
> quality assurance and security teams. We have a strict policy and bug
> resolution procedures. But they won't listen and still say Gentoo.
>
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> I know that there's plenty of logistical/mirroring reasons as
> to why we shouldn't duplicate a lot of the i386 tree by creating a
> i686 tree, but could we seriously not consider a partial i686
> optimised tree as a compromise to attract some of the Gentoo users
> back with our strengths in policy and testing? If not, then we need to
> find something else to offer to attract the cutting-edge
> enthusiast. The worst thing we could do is dismiss this
> completely. Remember the days when Slackware and Yggdrasil were the
> 'elitist's choice'? I certainly don't ever want to see Debian even
> come close to sinking.
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Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but my answer to this would be
pentium-builder and apt-src or apt-build.
Debian already has the infrastructure to be a source-based distribution, just
that no-one uses it.
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David Pashley
david@davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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