Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alan <alan@×××××.org>
To: Gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)"
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:17:19
Message-Id: 20030813161718.GC26229@ufies.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)" by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:32:52AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 [snip]
3 > The Gentoo kernel would have made a big difference. Also, gnumeric is
4 > plainly a dog. They also did not take into account that Mandrake uses
5 > prelink on all of its binaries by default. This decreases load times
6 > significantly and makes for a "snappier" system.
7 [snip]
8 >
9 > Once again, the OpenOffice thing is a result of prelink.
10
11 Maybe prelink should be used all the time on gentoo? Make it part of
12 the "default" so that it's always there and able to make things even
13 faster.
14
15 --
16 Alan <alan@×××××.org> - http://arcterex.net
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19 climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway

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