A couple searches didnt yeild very much. There are two items encouraging me to look at gentoo 1. rumored performance increases from native compiles 2. more current versions of apps in packages * a couple friends have run gentoo, rh, debian, mandrake and indicate that gentoo is very stable * current packages - no flame wars - exim4 needs to be downloaded/built for debian and its the main smtp package Main item pushing away from gentoo: 1. long build times on my lowend firewall 2. need for a compiler on everybox includeing firewall * rumor has it, gentoo can build a binary package for distribution nice feature for for a corporate env thoughts? Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:51:42AM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote:Ray said on Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:00:49AM -0600:or others that are compiled/optimized for the later i386 PCs?No.Search the debian-devel archives at http://lists.debian.org/ for a thread entitled 'are we losing users to gentoo?'. It goes over this again and again and again...if not, how should i go about mass source compiling debs for my computers? (i have a couple P1 laptops, P2s and a P4)Look for the pentium-builder package.Also, the apt-build package is designed for exactly this sort of game.and is it worth it?Probably not, but your mileage may vary.If you really care, you could certainly build 'optimised' versions of particular packages that you determine are bottlenecks. Many computationally intensive libraries like OpenSSL and lapack are already dealt with this way, within Debian, though.
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