Re: GENTOO
  By: Ibanez to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Mar 16 2008 11:45:00

 >  >  > Why/how does Gentoo deliver that "tiny bit
more" that other distros ca
 >  >
 >  > Probably something related to his specific hardware platform.  My box for
 >  > ple likes SuSe but wasnt as fast or happy with some of the other ones I'v
 >  > tried.  Nothing wrong with those other products, just minor differences i
 >  > hardware support that made that one run more optimal for me.
 > 
 > You compile Gentoo packages from source with flags for your specific
 > architecture. Some binary distros set flags pretty far back to support a lar
 > array of older archs -- for example, Slackware still compiles for i486 last 
 > checked.

It would be foolish to suggest that Gentoo performs better because the 
packages are compiled for the platform.  I can assure you, Slackware comes 
with a compiler too.

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