Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

[Michael Stone]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:14:23AM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:33:29 +0000 Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, this is the sort of anecdotal 'evidence' that is of no use
whatsoever. Most of the time it turns out to be a matter of local
[snip]
Is it really? I tweeked debain on this box untill it hurt. I was slowly
replaceing everything by hand to compile it with decent optimizations.
[snip further anecdotal evidence]
Yes, it really is. The trouble with anecdotal evidence is that it's
easily trumped by contrary anecdotal evidence. See, kde & gnome work
perfectly well for me without compiling locally. So I guess there isn't
any need? 

Mike Stone