[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Jan Kokoska]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 00:02 +0000, Nix wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Martin A. Brooks yowled:
> [build from source]
> > If you like, but that's almost completely pointless. Why spend hours
> > compiling something that will spend 99.95% percent of its runtime
> > waiting for user input?  There are certain specific programs that
> > genuinely do benefit from being compiled for the host
> > kernel/libs/architecture.  You most likely don't use them.
> 
> You don't use SSH?
> 
> i.e., on certain architectures, notably SPARC, OpenSSL benefits
> *massively* from being built for v8 and above, because of v7's lack of
> integer multiply instructions; we're talking SSH connections being
> established ten to fifty times faster with v8 optimizations in
> OpenSSL. These days most distros have recognised this, and the
> multi-arch support in glibc permits you to ship multiple OpenSSLs in
> appropriate directories and have them picked up by the appropriate
> machines, but before that, you pretty much *had* to build OpenSSL
> from source if you wanted a usable SSH.
> 
> There are still some cases like that.

Interesting. So someone actually still uses the Sun machines, right? ;)

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