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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. great article! by randyest · · Score: 0, Troll

    But I think I've read it a few times before already . . .

    Here's a complete repost of the text in case it gets slashdotted. Hmm, guess I should post as AC, but wtf. Just don't mod this up.

    Warning: Lost connection to MySQL server during query in /home/misskim/public_html/linmagau.org/pnadodb/dri vers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 170

    Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Lost connection to MySQL server during query in /home/misskim/public_html/linmagau.org/pnadodb/dri vers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 170>
    mysql://misskim:@localhost/misskim failed to connectLost connection to MySQL server during query

    Hmm, guess I should post as AC, but wtf. Just don't mod this up. :)

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