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Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?



On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:15:58PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:02:40 +0000
> Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:50:32PM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote:
> > The answer is the same as always. Provide evidence that this would
> > significantly help performance. Nobody has yet done so.
> 
> Let me just say as a desktop user of Gentoo. I can use gentoo's X server
> and the opensouce nv driver here with kde and have a usable desktop. I
> couldn't in debian, it was just too slow. Yes, it's anticdotal. 

Yes, this is the sort of anecdotal 'evidence' that is of no use
whatsoever. Most of the time it turns out to be a matter of local
system configuration. IDE DMA is one of the bigger culprits here.

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