Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:05:26AM -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I have to disagree with this. I used to use Mandrake and Gentoo is a >> *LOT* faster than Mandrake. I turned off a lot of unused services and >> Mandrake was still pretty slow. This is especially true if you >> customize all the flags you can. I suspect he will see a speed >> difference. Plus he will know what is being installed and why. Gentoo >> IMHO beats Mandrake and others by a long shot. >> > > Well, yes, it may be faster a bit, like 1%, maybe 10%… But if one distro > would be unbearable slow, gentoo would be too. It won't just be faster > 10 times, and yes, that 10% are nice, but not usually worth switching > your distro. > > Have a nice day > >
I did a bit of timing on mine. Gentoo was about twice as fast as Mandrake. I have more stuff running now than I did with Mandrake. I have a good bit of server stuff running on Gentoo too. Gentoo is faster *if* you take the time to set it up right. I'm not saying to use insane flags that make you unstable just that you can optimize it for your CPU and such. It certainly helps a lot. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
