[Wolves]Gentoo was: Another Ubuntu switch

[Simon Burke]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:14:29 +0000, sparkes <sparkes at westmids.biz> wrote:
> fizzy wrote:
> >  --- Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>I have just completed switching my workstation from
> >>SuSE 9.1 to Gentoo.
> >
> >
> > Good stuff Ron, nice to see others seeing the light :)
> > Going to rebuild my gentoo laptop, I've learned a lot
> > since I first installed and fancy putting my knowledge
> > into practice :)
> 
> unless you've mined the ore yourself and invented your own polymers you
> can't rebuild your laptop and expect top performance ;-)  It also seems
> that most gentoo users (at least the loud public ones) need to USE drugs
> to control themselves rather than use flags.
> 
> I suppose if you had 20 workstations and a bunch of servers you wanted
> to run at top speed using really high quality hardware and sharing the
> build process gentoo would be worth it but I just can't see how the
> trade off in compilation time can be worth it on one machine.
> 
> By the time something like KDE is installed a new version is out.
> That's why I like apt.  I can get a working binary within 24 hours of
> the build server getting the source.  And I know I won't have to give up
> a massive chunk of processing power to get it working.\
> 
I wouldnt mind having a go at gentoo myself, it seems well suited to
me, im a minimalist at heart so i would never have to spend days
compiling after the initial umph.

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Thanks,
SimonB