Gentoo Is Not About Performance

Posted Oct 31, 2009 1:00 UTC (Sat) by kev009 (guest, #43906)
In reply to: Gentoo Is Not About Performance by hathawsh
Parent article: Gentoo Optimizations Benchmarked (Linux Magazine)

People, thank Gentoo users the next time you install software on your binary distro.

We are the ultimate GCC and binutils testsuite, not to mention all of the build and test suites of various core and extra packages.

As others pointed out, GCC optimizations aren't the crux of Gentoo. My favorite part is only building with the USE flags of the options I care about. This means smaller code size, less attack vector, and choice of libraries (i.e. gnutls vs openssl, cairo?, gtk vs qt, xcb vs xlib?). The other primary advantage is the rolling release, which is also a feature of Arch Linux.

If this doesn't float your boat, use Fedora... but at least acknowledge all the work and testing that Gentoo users and devs perform.

Gentoo Is Not About Performance

Posted Oct 31, 2009 14:03 UTC (Sat) by sgros (guest, #36440) [Link]

But he doesn't say he's helping to find and correct bugs, he finds Gentoo great because he can avoid bugs by selecting different (presumably) older components.

Gentoo Is Not About Performance

Posted Oct 31, 2009 18:16 UTC (Sat) by Cato (guest, #7643) [Link]

The other great thing about Gentoo is the wiki - it has extremely detailed HOWTO pages on almost every topic you can imagine, and these are useful for almost all other distros. As an Ubuntu user, I'm very glad Gentoo exists!