[20030625] Johannes Graumann (johannes_graumann@web.de) wrote: > Hello, Hello > This might be a provoking question but I was wondering whether anybody on the list had tried Gentoo Linux ... I get the impression that the custom compiling done through this distribution might be the right thing for the limited resources of a laptop? > Please let me hear your opinion! [I hope this is not the begginning of a distro flame war :D] I've tried both gentoo & debian on my Compaq Presario 724EA & on my home & work desktop boxes & servers. On a fast desktop computer with lots of ram & a speedy hdd gentoo is nice. KDE compiled with "-march=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" feels quite fast & everything feels a little bit faster than debian. The drawback is that it took me ~2 days to set it up :) On my notebook I installed Debian Unstable 2 days ago from the ground up to a full blown installation with X & openoffice in ~90 mins :) The only thing I compiled was kernel-2.4.21 with ACPI & alsa. I think you see the difference... Plus compiling everything creates heat & most notebooks' cooling systems aren't quite efficient on that matter, so you can easily break your hardware. At work, definately debian (woody on servers & sid on desktops), that way I have more free time for myself instead of waiting hours & hours for mozilla/kde/samba/whatever to compile :) However if you need that extra speed on mozilla or kde you can always use apt-build in debian for these packages... -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: mtzanidakis@jabber.org ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu
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