Re: [MLUG] What Linux Distro Do You Prefer?

[John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Suposely to compile the programs to  work  with the
Processor's setup, and suposely increases the speed the programs
run at.

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Nathan Atkinson wrote:
>
> > Gentoo takes an eternity to install, it took me almost 3 days to compile
> > everything on my AthlonXP 2100 with 512MB of RAM.  It is amazing how
> > long it takes to compile X, KDE, and a few other things.
>
> I'm surprised that you would compile so many programs.  Why doesn't it
> come with pre-compiled packages?  If it does come with such packages, why
> don't you use them?
>
> I can understand that you might like to compile a few things so that you
> can add non-default features, but is it really worth it to compile
> everything?
>
> Mike
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