hasn't this happened before? We start talking about something and
the next day it shows up on slashdot...cool
Developers: Measuring The Benefits Of The Gentoo Approach
http://articles.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=227
"We're constantly hearing how the source based nature of the Gentoo distro
makes better use of your hardware, but no-one seems to have really tested
it. What kind of gains are involved over distros which use binary
packaging? The article is here."
ray
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, -ray wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alex wrote:
>
> > I can qualitatively ;) say that I get better performance after compiling
> > X and the kernel, but I believe a lot of that is because the Crusoe
> > emulates the i386. And if you already have a slow disk. and/or your ram
> > is maxed out, which is the case for most laptops...then you want to
> > squeeze everything out of it, right?
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