[NTLUG:Discuss] Anyone here use Gentoo?

[Chris Cox]

Kyle Davenport wrote:
...
> 
> After I've tweaked my own kernel (with Kon Colivas' desktop performance
> patches), tweaked my drivers and settings and services, and compiled my own
> athlon-optimized source rpm's, I don't know that Gentoo would be giving you
> any better performance than redhat.  They can't magically make the
> source-code optimized for every platform.  And I still have n't gotten
> around to non-gcc standard compilers, much less athlon-optimized
> assemblers!

I think the point is that gentoo is intended from the ground up
for creating a self-built(compiled) version of Linux from
source, where it's certainly not the intent of a distribution
like Redhat (or SuSE for that matter).  I agree that recompiling
from source on Redhat/SuSE does increase performance though
(esp. when they were always/only delivering i386 binaries).

I know there are several of us in NTLUG that are going to create
a gentoo server for fun.  It reminds me a lot of BSD Ports.

I'd also like to add (inspite of my "all SuSE" remarks sometimes),
that I love things like Debian (which I installed on my Alpha)
and Knoppix (an impressive Debian based dist that's fast,
contains many bells and whistles and can run entirely
from the CD).

... I just don't like RH that much.