[GLLUG] Re: Gentoo

[Caleb Cushing]

hmm... at any rate the compiling thing is  a common misconception propagated
by new and ignorant users of gentoo... there are of course many jokes
floating around about "Gentoo Ricing". You can... however speed up certain
applications by using prelink<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml>.
if your a kde user this can allow you to take kde init right out of the
process, I have noticed a few speedups from using it but with my
minimalistic approach I wasn't going to notice that much.

On 3/13/06, Charles Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe I should have used smiley faces, Caleb.  All my points in my
> original e-mail were in jest.
>
>                                 Chick
>
>
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > Where's that quote for gentoo is for people who think optimizing there
> > system by compiling from source is actually going to get them huge speed
> > increases... lol... ricers. n00bs. compiling from source won't usually
> > gain you that much speed. it can gain you space though and it can help
> > by stripping out features you don't use anyway. I doubt that compiling
> > from source gains you more than 1 second on the startup of an
> > application. once it's running unless you removed a lot of features I
> > doubt you notice a significant speed increase. No offense chick, but
> > Gentoo isn't going to give you enough extra speed, post compile, for it
> > to be a good enough reason to use. once again so no one misunderstands
> > gentoo is my preferred distribution.
> >
> > On 3/13/06, *Charles Tower* <c.e.tower at gmail.com
> > <mailto:c.e.tower at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     It gives your computer something to do (compile) while nobody is
> >     actually using it.  It also consumes a lot of that pesky free time
> you
> >     have, yourself.  The speed increase you get from a custom-compiled
> OS
> >     and applications makes up for a good portion of the time you spend
> >     tweaking your system.  But, best of all, Gentoo makes for memorable
> >     conversations at any party.  (In all fairness, that last statement
> is
> >     equally valid for all Linux distros and BSDs.)
> >
> >                                     Chick
> >
>
>
>
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