Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 17:41:24
Message-Id: 200905181939.48524.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel by William Hubbs
1 On Monday 18 May 2009 19:12:22 William Hubbs wrote:
2 > Another difference is that, since you are compiling everything from
3 > source, with the correct CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS settings in make.conf, you
4 > can optimize the binaries you produce to take full advantage of your
5 > processor, which you can't do on a binary distro since everything is
6 > already compiled for you.
7
8 Another word:
9
10 That's ricing.
11
12 Ok, that's two words. You get the idea.
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15 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com