From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <839f55813bc9a1b7f0546d702742f02f@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:57:58 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] APE fork() In-Reply-To: <7d3530220608140833i357ee219r33d84a7bf515819c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9f513bf4-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i've got nothing but good things to say about gentoo. but you can't drink the cool-aid about performance. really, you know the gentoo performance weenies are wrong when they talk about rebuilding their toolchain three times. i like it because i can run wierd hardware and i don't have binary package dependency hell. (binary packages are untenable on a with dl libraries anyway.) also, they keep on top of security problems. - erik On Mon Aug 14 10:34:20 CDT 2006, slawmaster@gmail.com wrote: > Spend days building Ricer Linux so you can save .2 seconds loading > Firefox... I have met guys who do this, and talk about how great it is > on their (new) machines. I ask them how long they'll have to keep > using Gentoo to make up for the day of compilation. > That said, I have done Gentoo on an old SPARCstation in hopes that it > would run nicely. Splack Linux turned out better.