Measuring The Benefits Of The Gentoo Approach

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Measuring The Benefits Of The Gentoo Approach

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 2, 2003 @09:32AM 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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Re:right now by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2003-08-02 09:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Using it. It rocks. Best Linux distribution yet.

So are Debian, RedHat, SuSE and Slackware, according to Debian, RedHat, SuSE and Slackware users (respectively). I take it you're a Gentoo fan?

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Re:Misses the point by mickwd · 2003-08-02 10:01 · Score: 2, Funny

"emerge is faster than up2date. one character less to type."

Hehehe....and Mandrake's "urpmi" is one character shorter than that.....
Re:Misses the point by keesh · 2003-08-02 10:06 · Score: 2, Funny

alias e sudo emerge. I win.
Ob. Translate-o-matic post by tempest303 · 2003-08-02 10:12 · Score: 4, Funny

Here you go, the obligatory Gentoo Zealot Translate-o-matic reference!

Enjoy!

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Photo views a little skewed? by SassyDave · 2003-08-02 10:13 · Score: 2, Funny

Does it seem strange to anyone else that in the linked photo gallery, the only picture with a female has been viewed 3 times more than any of the other pictures?

Sheesh.

I guess there's just not much scenery to show off at distro day.
...and 11 hours later: by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-02 10:14 · Score: 2, Funny

OpenOffice.org!
Re:Misses the point by scotch · 2003-08-02 10:15 · Score: 2, Funny

'chsh -s /bin/emerge' I win.

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Re:Happy as a wet turtle Gentoo user by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-02 10:20 · Score: 1, Funny

I want compilers to compile just int main(int c, char **a) { return 0; } when they encounter benchmark programs such as yours...
Re:From a LFS perspective by Sloppy · 2003-08-02 11:04 · Score: 2, Funny

Unfortunately not all of us have oodles of time on our hands.
Me neither, but my computer sure does. If it wants to compile stuff when I'm not around or when I'm asleep, that's fine with me.

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Re:Misses the point by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-02 12:25 · Score: 1, Funny

Yes, [debian] and [debian] we [debian] all [debian] know [debian] that [debian] rpm [debian] and [debian] gentoo [debian] are [debian] the [debian] only [debian] two [debian] choices [debian].

If [debian] only [debian] there [debian] were [debian] a [debian] GNU/Linux [debian] distro [debian] that [debian] had [debian] excellent [debian] quality [debian] control, [debian], ran [debian] on [debian] a [debian] huge [debian] number [debian] of [debian] hardware [debian] platforms, [debian], and [debian] had [debian] over [debian] 9,000 [debian] packages [debian] available [debian] for [debian] it [debian].
Re:Misses the point by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-03 03:58 · Score: 1, Funny

Here is the chance for Linux to take the lead for once.

Yeah! Take the lead, by copying what FreeBSD already does.