[Gllug] Recommended distro

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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.

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