On Thursday 03 February 2005 12:09 pm, Jason Clinton wrote:
Well, that's typical for his Crypto application. For those of us who don't care to install and configure a bunch of software just to read his posts:
I seem to recall reading somewhere that it was proven scientifically that Gentoo optimized binaries are no more efficient than the generic 386 stuff distributed by other distributions.
Personally, I think that the speed that people 'feel' in Gentoo is due in large part to building everything from scratch and -- by extention -- not throwing everything and the kitchen sink in to the start-up sequence as is done is many distributions
My, what a different song we hear now than when first we were adopting gentoo. I seem to recall raving praises about the speed of X when custom compiled.
Luminsoft sells SuSE instead of Gentoo now. Coincidence?