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Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:05:26AM -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> I have to disagree with this. I used to use Mandrake and Gentoo is a |
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>> *LOT* faster than Mandrake. I turned off a lot of unused services and |
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>> Mandrake was still pretty slow. This is especially true if you |
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>> customize all the flags you can. I suspect he will see a speed |
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>> difference. Plus he will know what is being installed and why. Gentoo |
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>> IMHO beats Mandrake and others by a long shot. |
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> Well, yes, it may be faster a bit, like 1%, maybe 10%… But if one distro |
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> would be unbearable slow, gentoo would be too. It won't just be faster |
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> 10 times, and yes, that 10% are nice, but not usually worth switching |
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> your distro. |
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> Have a nice day |
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I did a bit of timing on mine. Gentoo was about twice as fast as |
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Mandrake. I have more stuff running now than I did with Mandrake. I |
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have a good bit of server stuff running on Gentoo too. Gentoo is faster |
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*if* you take the time to set it up right. I'm not saying to use insane |
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flags that make you unstable just that you can optimize it for your CPU |
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and such. It certainly helps a lot. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) :-) |
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