[KLUG Members] Gentoo Linux questions

[Tim Smith]

In an email posted earlier in the week, It sounded
like the Gentoo distribution compiles a kernel and
possibly all of the linux apps/programs you install
with it.  Would that make a significant difference on
efficiency?  I have an AMD k6-2 380Mhz box with 96
megs of ram I'm about to do a reinstall on and was
wondering if compiling everything would make much of a
difference.  Also, does anyone know if the installer
"portage" thing can detect your hardware and make
compiler optimizations for newbies who don't
neccesarily know what their doing in the programming
realm? :)

Thanx,
Tim

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