Vishal Vatsa wrote:
> On Wed 22 Jun 2005 16:10, Colm Buckley wrote:
>>>On 22 Jun 2005, at 15:31, Braun Brelin wrote:
>>>>>Care to explicate on this? I.e. is there a specific reason you
>>>dislike Gentoo?
>>>>Apart from "it's stupid and pointless to compile your applications
>>yourself?"
>>>> Colm
>> Also most people don't want to spend like a couple of days of setting up the
> system for 10-20% boost. Its just not worth the compile time if don't have
> the latest and greatest CPU. And if you do then do you really care about 10%
> boost?
>
if you don't care about 10-20% performance, you could just use openbsd.
All the benefits of gentoo (compiling from scratch for most things) and
added security.
L.
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