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On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 19:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> There will always be a current flavour-of-the-moment distro. |
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> A few years ago it was Red Hat 9, then Debian had a turn, then Gentoo |
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> hit the headlines. A large part of the hype was ricers who thought that |
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> having gcc unroll every loop would somehow give spectacular performance |
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> increases. They were wrong and - thank god - most of them have left, |
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> leaving us sane folks behind. |
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who are you calling sane? oh.. that was a compliment ;) |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. |
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-- James H. Boren |
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