--- Roger Merchberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
~snip~
> I thought I read "Most applications." Crusoe
> optimizations really do affect
> most (all?) applications, including web browsing &
> word processing. DVD
> playing was quite dramatic - Winders couldn't do it,
> and every Linux distro
>
I haven't personally used debfoster, but I recently switched from Suse
to Debian and conducted a little research in to the package management
system and found debfoster, here's a description.
"debfoster is a wrapper program for apt and dpkg. When first run, it
will ask you which of the installed
Rumor has it that Justin The Cynical may have mentioned these words:
>Roger Merchberger wrote:
> > Rumor has it that Justin The Cynical may have mentioned these words:
> >
> >> Building from source isn't going to give much of a performance boost,
> >
> > You've obviously never owned a Crusoe proces
Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Rumor has it that Justin The Cynical may have mentioned these words:
>
>> Building from source isn't going to give much of a performance boost,
>
> You've obviously never owned a Crusoe processor-based computer, have you?
> ;-) Lemme tell ya, compiling for the architect
Rumor has it that Justin The Cynical may have mentioned these words:
>*snip*
>Now, to be fair...
>(devils advocate mode on)
[[ Bigger snippage ]]
>Packages as a whole bug me to no end. Gentoo isn't any better.
I've learned to live with 'em if necessary... not like 'em, but live with
'em... ;-
On 5/29/07, Peter B. Steiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I finally put together another PC out of spare parts to use as a server;
> up to this point my only linux box acted as server, game machine,
> personal workstation, etc. and it drove my family crazy when I had to
> reboot because I was exper
Peter B. Steiger wrote:
*snip*
Now, to be fair...
(devils advocate mode on)
> There's no package management so whenever I ran apt-get I had no idea
> what it installed or where it put things. If I changed my mind about
> something and ran apt-get uninstall, it would only uninstall the one
> pa
"Dear sir, there is nothing difficult in LFS. It is much harder
to understand and fix bugs that creators of easy-to-use distros do."
(c) by someone I don't remember
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Hi Peter..
I've used just about every distro of Linux out there and know what your
going through, however if you do not have time to compile every single
little thing then Debian/Ubuntu is the only way to go but you have to
keep in mind that when you install a server based OS all of the unnee
ge-
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Steiger
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:29 AM
To: LFS Support
Subject: Never use another distro, only LFS for me
I finally put together another PC out of spare parts to use as a server;
up to this point my only linux box a
I finally put together another PC out of spare parts to use as a server;
up to this point my only linux box acted as server, game machine,
personal workstation, etc. and it drove my family crazy when I had to
reboot because I was experimenting. Now I can experiment on my own
computer while the serv
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