[Nottingham] Debian devotion [was: OE Reply Fixer]

David Bean nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Mar 5 08:27:02 2003


> Is the i386 vs optimisations really that big a step?  Are there any
> decent benchmarks on it in normal use for instance?

I know my P 90 - compiled from source (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) gets 
to a console faster than my PII 300 running debian woody. Both running same 
services.

Would be nice to have a background service recompiling and optimising woody. 
(KDE 3 took nearly a week to compile on my P90)

Dave