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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. Re:Misses the point by FeeDBaCK · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Portage has supported binary packages for a while now and the current beta version of portage even has support for automatically downloading binary packages.

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    wolf31o2 Developer, Gentoo Linux Games Team