/dev/rob0 wrote:
>> am i the only one for whom both these links return 404's?
>
> Word wrap? The first was the previous poster's link with the line break
> removed, and the second was linked from that page.

i doubt it was word wrap: i checked to make sure urlview extracted the
entire url.

> In case the server's down, I'll summarise:

thanks, but i found the pages through the search function.

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On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:04:21 +0000, Billy Watt wrote:

> In newsan.2003.12.03.12.51.55.968312@_excite_._com,
> tkrin <tkrin@_excite_._com> rambled:
>
>> Hey all. I'm looking at switching from my Mandrake world over to
>> Slack. Well, actually, I basically have, but so many of my friends
>> are telling me how great Gentoo is. I saw a very basic performance
>> article at Gentoo comparing Gentoo and Mandrake. I was curious if
>> anyone has ever done a comparison between Slack and Gentoo? I don't
>> really wish to go through the compilation of Gentoo if there is no
>> substantial speed benefit over Slack. I'm pretty much hooked. Can't
>> believe it took me eight years to come back to Slack. WOH! RPM
>> sucked me in pretty good. :-/
>>
>
> I think the question you have to be asking yourself is really how does the
> time taken to compile everything from stage 1 compare to the time you will
> save while the box is in use.
>
> Given that it takes hours to get a gentoo box into any sort of useable state
> from stage 1, I would reckon it would have to be pretty damn quick to be
> worth it.

LOL , sorry have to say that is a good point!

/dev/rob0 <rob0@gmx.co.uk> says...

>I see the appeal of Gentoo as being a convenient way to keep on the
>bleeding edge. I doubt that's what draws in most new Gentoo users,
>however; they seem to be drawn by, "Wow, what a geeky thrill, my box
>compiled all this and it will be SoooOOOOooo FAST!"

On my list of Things To Do is to figure out how to compile all
of Slackware from the source CDs with one script. (I don't think
it will make a big difference - I want to do it as a learning
experience to get better at scripting.) Then I can do a speed
compare between stock, recompiled kernel, and recompiled everything.


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Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com> wrote:
> On my list of Things To Do is to figure out how to compile all
> of Slackware from the source CDs with one script. (I don't think

Keep me on your mailing list for that one.

Would be nice if intergrated with the slackware installer.. still go
through the same 'add swap', 'add target', and the package selection..
then one final choice of "binary or source?" then install, then back to
the slack installer to configure lilo, netconfig, +x rc.d, etc...

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