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* Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs@×××××××.nz> wrote: |
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Hi, |
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> I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but |
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> find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of |
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> customization that I can do with it. |
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wb :) |
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> However, I do have a few worries - why has there been no 2007.1 release |
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> (there was a 2006.1 from what I recall)? |
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Actually, I never cared about these "releases". IMHO they're just |
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profiles. portage keeps your system up-to-date by fresh ebuilds. |
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For a fresh installation I always take the newest profile and |
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older systems are migrated from time to time. Never felt the need |
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for an immediate profile update. |
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> There also appears to have been a bit of turmoil in the Gentoo |
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> 'management;' - has this affected the long term viability of |
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> running Gentoo? |
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AFAIK, this only affected the foundation, which is just an |
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organization which does some "business work" (eg. marketing), |
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collects funds for server infrastructure, etc. The Gentoo project |
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itself doesn't *need* it, it just makes some things easier. |
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I've never felt any impact on the distro by these troubles. |
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(but that's just my personal oppition) |
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> Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ |
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> advantage to running AMD64 or should I still to x86? |
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> Just a few questions before I plunge in to it again :-) |
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My personal taste: only useful if you need more than 3GB per |
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process (1GB virtual address space is reseverd for the kernel, |
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but this could be changed within the kernel sources) or for |
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bumber crunching, maybe also in some database workloads. |
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The key point: on an 64bit system, CPU traffic is 64bit width, |
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so CPU's IO is faster, but this (normally) implies also 64bit |
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code alignment, which can waste a lot of memory. |
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BTW: some applications can use 64bit ops for specific things |
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even on an 32bit base system (but this has to be done with |
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caution, just like any other CPU specific optimizations). |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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