[Nottingham] The quickest distro in NLUG

[Roger Light]

On 14/09/06, Martin Garton <martin at stupids.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 11:09 +0100, Martin wrote:
>
> > Kustom Kompiled Kernels Is Kwick whatever distros...?
>
> In my experience, custom compiled kernels don't make much difference on
> most hardware except in corner cases.  I believe this is partly down to
> the way the kernel is coded. (more like using C as a portable assembler)

The advantage of custom compiled kernels is just that - you get to
tweak the features to your needs as well as to see what is up and
coming.

> [1] with the possible exception of -O2 in some cases.

And possibly -Os if you have very small cpu cache.

Cheers,

Roger