[Klug-general] [Klug-General] More free stuff

[Martin A. Brooks]

George Prowse wrote:
> Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>   
>> ly?  The things that really help with compiling lots of stuff are 
>> lots of cores, lots of memory and lovely quick disks.  None of these 
>> things are usually present on a laptop.
>>   
>>     
> That's only getting it set up, Gentoo has a tiny footprint and once you 
> get everything up and running (it may take a day or two) it should run 
> faster than your average binary based distro. 

Two days of compiling to "optimise" software that will spend 99.5% of 
the time waiting for user input?   Compare that to perhaps 30 minutes to 
install something like Debian or Ubuntu.   I think I'd rather save the 
other 23.5 hours for more important things, like, well, anything other 
than watching endless compile progress screens go past.


> You dont need to keep updating Gentoo, some people on production servers will do it once a year

Then they have badly maintained systems.

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