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Measuring The Benefits Of The Gentoo Approach

Posted by timothy on from the not-necessarily-what-you'd-think dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We're constantly hearing how the source based nature of the Gentoo distro makes better use of your hardware, but no-one seems to have really tested it. What kind of gains are involved over distros which use binary packaging? The article is here."

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  1. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1) take three crappy boxes, load one with debian and
    two with a linux of dubiously useful paradigm ..

    2) let morons try to make them work

    3) ???

    4) annoy me

    choke on your own vomit, por favor

  2. Re:Misses the point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Changing the CPU multiplier will not give you what you are looking for as it will likely change your FSB speed and L1/L2 cache access rates.

    I stopped reading your post right there because it was already clear that you have no idea what you are talking about. You might want to try to learn something about computers before you start acting like an expert, butt licker.