[Tfug] Machine Rehabilitation

[Andrew Ayre]

Other "features" of Gentoo are that you build your system only with the
specific software and services that you want. Also by default many options
in the Kernel are disabled. I didn't realise this until I needed to set up a
firewall. However it's easy to enable kernel options and there are lots of
Gentoo howtos. But the general philosophy is that with Gentoo you can have a
system that only contains what you want.

Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
erich
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:27 AM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Machine Rehabilitation


Yeah,
      If it's x86 architecture, you're probably better off with
pre-compiled *.rpm's or
*.deb's. I had to use Gentoo for an alpha. Why? Debian was dragging it's
feet in
getting up-to-date *.deb's for an architecture that they're not making
anymore.
      Every package on this machine was built from source. My alpha has
a new
lease on life. I'm using it to write this e-mail. Incidentally, you
don't have to build
everything in Gentoo like you once had to. They now provide pre-compiled
binaries
for some of the bigger packages like OpenOffice & KDE.


Erich
Robert Hunter wrote:

>>To squeeze the last drop of performance out of it I would suggest Gentoo
>>-
>>everything is built from source.
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>Bah.  Gentoo fanatics.  ;-)
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