> Unfortunately, some of the "kids" seem to come out of the woodwork.
> They get all into it. The mod cars are a very _appropriate_ example in
> comparison. Because it doesn't matter what anyone says, it's all about
> the matching "attitude" they have.
>
> An optimized, but stable "packages" distro like Fedora is like a
> Corvette -- big, heavy, mainstream. Yeah, it's only built with "gcc
> -O2". But packages are i486 ISA compatible, optimized for i686 (and P4
> in FC3, which I do _not_ agree with, long story), and multimedia and
> other apps are built with _all_ extensions. It's big, but it's got pure
> torque.
Yep, there's always one OS or distribution that has that reputation
for being for the 13370 h4x0rs. And currently gentoo is it. A few
years ago it was FreeBSD, a few years before that it was Slackware,
for a while it was even Debian (gasp!).
I think gentoo will experience a rather large downturn in user
population as we move more and more away from the broken x86
architecture and take away 99% of the rationale(optimalizations!) for
hand-building every piece of software separately on every machine -
there are only two differences between a gentoo-amd64 package and a
debian-amd64 package: you have to waste your time building the gentoo
one from source only to get the same binary, and the debian one isn't
broken. :P
OTOH, it is possible that x86-64 will pick up some of the
inconsistencies like those that have plagued x86 for so long; I've
already heard complaining about how the em64ts are so much different
than the amd64s.
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