Eric Jahn wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 06:27 -0400, ronan wrote:
>
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>>*** warning: Distro-war beginning in 5,4,3,2,1 *** I like Debian myself,
>>but to squeeze the last ounce of performance out of your hardware, you
>>might want a source-based distro like Gentoo. Every piece of software is
>>compiled on your hardware. Thus everything should be compiled targeting
>>your Athlon, rather than a 386 or 486.
>>
>>
>
>Everyone note: The above was the quintessential definition of totally
>unnecessary and unabashed trollery and distro-based evangelism. Please
>do not fall victim to the strange same strange urge which induced the
>author to write it. The original post, being responded to, in no way
>indicated they cared to explore other distros.
>
>
>
Now I know for slackware while the packages work on 486 machine they are
optmized for 686 where they could be with out breaking 486 support. I
belive and some people I know say yes is that is true.
I did alot of research on gentoo vs slackware vs debian preformance,
while there is a was a slight improvement in gentoo like booting kde to
a full desktop a whole 2.372 secs faster and 2.825 secs faster in debian
is not much of a determining factor.
No one questioning the preformance enchancing qualities of Gentoo and it
ports based system. But it is diffenently not for everyone and most
will not find the small gain in speed a worth the hassle.
The man wants to use Debian Let him use Debian if later he wants to try
gentoo so be it. Distro bashing is not needed around here.
>--The Ghost of Jim Varney
>
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