[Nottingham] distro chance

[Andrew Mason]

Quoting Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li>:

> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:12:52PM +1000, Andrew Mason wrote:
> > > Personally, I'd take a look at Gentoo. It's certainly my favourite,
> although
> > > it'd possibly be even better with precompiled binaries as well. 
> > Yes it would =) 
> 
> But then you'd lose out on the only advantage it has.  I never bought
> the optimising for your processor advantage personally but the
> optimising by compiling out/in stuff might be useful.
> 
> Still not useful enough for me that I'm prepared to spend my life
> compiling things but then I'm a Debian bigot as you all know.

But for i386-i686 i doubt you would see any, however those with PPC, P4, or
Althon 64/anything with SSE2 instructions proabably would. If these were offered
as binary(i.e for each major arch where there are advantages) it would be good.
However this would take alot of time and server resources.