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Posted by timothy on Saturday August 02, 2003 @05:32PM from the not-necessarily-what-you'd-think dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We're constantly hearing how the source based nature of the Gentoo distro makes better use of your hardware, but no-one seems to have really tested it. What kind of gains are involved over distros which use binary packaging? The article is here."

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Re:right now (Score:5, Funny)

by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 ) writes: on Saturday August 02, 2003 @05:45PM (#6596788)

Using it. It rocks. Best Linux distribution yet.

So are Debian, RedHat, SuSE and Slackware, according to Debian, RedHat, SuSE and Slackware users (respectively). I take it you're a Gentoo fan?

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Re:Misses the point (Score:3, Funny)

by mickwd ( 196449 ) writes: on Saturday August 02, 2003 @06:01PM (#6596857)

"emerge is faster than up2date. one character less to type."

Hehehe....and Mandrake's "urpmi" is one character shorter than that.....

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Re:Misses the point (Score:3, Funny)

by keesh ( 202812 ) * writes: on Saturday August 02, 2003 @06:06PM (#6596871) Homepage

alias e sudo emerge. I win.

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Ob. Translate-o-matic post (Score:5, Funny)

by tempest303 ( 259600 ) writes: <jensknutson@@@yahoo...com> on Saturday August 02, 2003 @06:12PM (#6596897) Homepage

Here you go, the obligatory Gentoo Zealot Translate-o-matic [upevil.net] reference!

Enjoy!

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Photo views a little skewed? (Score:2, Funny)

by SassyDave ( 557868 ) writes: on Saturday August 02, 2003 @06:13PM (#6596905) Homepage

Does it seem strange to anyone else that in the linked photo gallery [linmagau.org], the only picture with a female [linmagau.org] has been viewed 3 times more than any of the other pictures?

Sheesh.

I guess there's just not much scenery to show off at distro day.

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...and 11 hours later: (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday August 02, 2003 @06:14PM (#6596908)

OpenOffice.org!

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Re:Misses the point (Score:3, Funny)

by scotch ( 102596 ) writes: on Saturday August 02, 2003 @06:15PM (#6596910) Homepage

'chsh -s /bin/emerge' I win.

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Re:Happy as a wet turtle Gentoo user (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday August 02, 2003 @06:20PM (#6596934)

I want compilers to compile just int main(int c, char **a) { return 0; } when they encounter benchmark programs such as yours...

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Re:From a LFS perspective (Score:2, Funny)

by Sloppy ( 14984 ) * writes: on Saturday August 02, 2003 @07:04PM (#6597127) Homepage Journal

Unfortunately not all of us have oodles of time on our hands.
Me neither, but my computer sure does. If it wants to compile stuff when I'm not around or when I'm asleep, that's fine with me.

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Re:Misses the point (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday August 02, 2003 @08:25PM (#6597466)

Yes, [debian] and [debian] we [debian] all [debian] know [debian] that [debian] rpm [debian] and [debian] gentoo [debian] are [debian] the [debian] only [debian] two [debian] choices [debian].

If [debian] only [debian] there [debian] were [debian] a [debian] GNU/Linux [debian] distro [debian] that [debian] had [debian] excellent [debian] quality [debian] control, [debian], ran [debian] on [debian] a [debian] huge [debian] number [debian] of [debian] hardware [debian] platforms, [debian], and [debian] had [debian] over [debian] 9,000 [debian] packages [debian] available [debian] for [debian] it [debian].

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Re:Misses the point (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday August 03, 2003 @11:58AM (#6600146)

Here is the chance for Linux to take the lead for once.

Yeah! Take the lead, by copying what FreeBSD already does.

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