AW: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?
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Thu Nov 3 11:38:05 EST 2005
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>Yes, you must have missed something. It took me not longer than one night to compile the whole gentoo system from stage 2, including
>X-Server and KDE.
>I was doing that also on a 3GHz AMD, 1024MB RAM.
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Ok, I exagerated the amount of time a bit :) But even over night is
unacceptable to me given the 'little' performance improvement you get.
It took me about half an hour to install a functional Debian (or
variant) install with Gnome, etc. When I installed Gentoo on the same
box, I saw little to no performance improvements. Personally, its not
worth it -- If I want to use something bleeding edge, then I will
compile it. Otherwise the packages put out by Debian work just fine for me.
I normally compile my own kernel even with one of the Debian variants --
that does improve my performance but to do the same for every piece of
software I use doesn't make sense to me.
Each to their own but personally would rather spend my time working on
my system 'tweaking it' rather then waiting for something to compile.
Norm
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