20 Sep
2003
20 Sep
'03
05:57
On Thursday 18 September 2003 23:44, Anders Karlsson wrote:
It might be however that the threshold for using a compiled-from-source distribution has dropped, making it more available to Joe User.
The other thing that has dropped is the price of bandwidth. Gentoo makes build from scratch easier, as long as you guess the answers to some of the most obtusely phrased questions correctly and type huge urls flawlessly. This "optimized" argument really does not wash in the real world. The idea that something that is compiled locally is automatically optimized for the system that compiled it is rubbish. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen