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

[George Prowse]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> George Prowse wrote:
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>> Martin A. Brooks wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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. 
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> 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.
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You're right, you'd be better off with windows anyway

>> You dont need to keep updating Gentoo, some people on production servers will do it once a year
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> Then they have badly maintained systems.
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Orly? So all those servers running 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 kernels are badly 
maintained? Maybe you should go and tell them?
> Perhaps not suitable for younger persons but  http://funroll-loops.info/
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Ah yes, a great page created by someone whose linux knowlege was so poor 
he couldn't get Gentoo working. Awesome.

Do you have something against Gentoo or are you in a bad mood?