[KLUG Members] Gentoo Linux questions

[Michael W. Holdeman]

Anyone here have specific exp. with Gentoo. I went partially from Linux to 
Freebsd a while ago, mostly for the ports system, and the speed/memory 
capabilities of the bsd. 
I heard some rumors that the portage system is nearly identical to the bsd 
ports system, and also that they noticed a speed advantage (possibly hence 
memory handeling) over other Linux distros?
I need to run win4lin on several boxen and as there is no way to do this with 
bsd I am considering Gentoo.

Mike



On Thursday 06 June 2002 09:26, you wrote:
> 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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