Comments on: Gentoo : First thoughts after the switch http://www.sakana.fr/blog/2008/10/05/gentoo-first-thoughts-after-the-switch/ On the fly saving of few useful (?) tech tips Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:37:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: ferg http://www.sakana.fr/blog/2008/10/05/gentoo-first-thoughts-after-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-7984 ferg Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:06:11 +0000 http://www.sakana.fr/blog/?p=166#comment-7984 One reason I'd always recommend Gentoo is the excellent user forums. I've rarely come across an issue that could not be resolved by a few minutes searching on there! One reason I’d always recommend Gentoo is the excellent user forums. I’ve rarely come across an issue that could not be resolved by a few minutes searching on there!

]]> By: Stéphane Kattoor http://www.sakana.fr/blog/2008/10/05/gentoo-first-thoughts-after-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-7960 Stéphane Kattoor Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:06:49 +0000 http://www.sakana.fr/blog/?p=166#comment-7960 @Greg : that was pretty much the point. On such a low powered machine, you have the possibility to easily fine tune your gentoo installation so that you don't run a single extra service, so that your packages will be specially optimized at compile time for your CPU, so that your kernel won't have any extra driver or feature you don't need and so on... If your machine is to slow to compile the packages in a fair amount of time, you can still build them as binary packages on a fast machine and install them on the slow one. @kyanh : archlinux is definitely something I'll try at some point :) @Greg : that was pretty much the point. On such a low powered machine, you have the possibility to easily fine tune your gentoo installation so that you don’t run a single extra service, so that your packages will be specially optimized at compile time for your CPU, so that your kernel won’t have any extra driver or feature you don’t need and so on…

If your machine is to slow to compile the packages in a fair amount of time, you can still build them as binary packages on a fast machine and install them on the slow one.

@kyanh : archlinux is definitely something I’ll try at some point :)

]]> By: Boycott Novell » Links 5-6/10/2008: A Look at Omega GNU/Linux, Mandriva 2009 RC2; Linux Turns 17 http://www.sakana.fr/blog/2008/10/05/gentoo-first-thoughts-after-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-7955 Boycott Novell » Links 5-6/10/2008: A Look at Omega GNU/Linux, Mandriva 2009 RC2; Linux Turns 17 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:06:40 +0000 http://www.sakana.fr/blog/?p=166#comment-7955 [...] Gentoo : First thoughts after the switch [...] [...] Gentoo : First thoughts after the switch [...]

]]> By: kyanh http://www.sakana.fr/blog/2008/10/05/gentoo-first-thoughts-after-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-7954 kyanh Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:30:21 +0000 http://www.sakana.fr/blog/?p=166#comment-7954 archlinux is enough for me :) archlinux is enough for me :)

]]> By: Greg http://www.sakana.fr/blog/2008/10/05/gentoo-first-thoughts-after-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-7953 Greg Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:52:52 +0000 http://www.sakana.fr/blog/?p=166#comment-7953 "You have an older machine and you want a small footprint installation to run on it" That sounds like overkill since older machines have low RAM and not so powerful CPUs. “You have an older machine and you want a small footprint installation to run on it”

That sounds like overkill since older machines have low RAM and not so powerful CPUs.

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