* Jamie Dobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,
> I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but > find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of > customization that I can do with it. wb :) > However, I do have a few worries - why has there been no 2007.1 release > (there was a 2006.1 from what I recall)? Actually, I never cared about these "releases". IMHO they're just profiles. portage keeps your system up-to-date by fresh ebuilds. For a fresh installation I always take the newest profile and older systems are migrated from time to time. Never felt the need for an immediate profile update. > There also appears to have been a bit of turmoil in the Gentoo > 'management;' - has this affected the long term viability of > running Gentoo? AFAIK, this only affected the foundation, which is just an organization which does some "business work" (eg. marketing), collects funds for server infrastructure, etc. The Gentoo project itself doesn't *need* it, it just makes some things easier. I've never felt any impact on the distro by these troubles. (but that's just my personal oppition) > Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ > advantage to running AMD64 or should I still to x86? > Just a few questions before I plunge in to it again :-) My personal taste: only useful if you need more than 3GB per process (1GB virtual address space is reseverd for the kernel, but this could be changed within the kernel sources) or for bumber crunching, maybe also in some database workloads. The key point: on an 64bit system, CPU traffic is 64bit width, so CPU's IO is faster, but this (normally) implies also 64bit code alignment, which can waste a lot of memory. BTW: some applications can use 64bit ops for specific things even on an 32bit base system (but this has to be done with caution, just like any other CPU specific optimizations). cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
