Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 15, 2006 04:27 AM
Compiling programs yourself doesn't make them run faster. Having less crap installed makes your computer run faster. That's why Gentoo is faster than Fedora.
I would suggest a distribution that allows you easily to build your system from the ground up, but has powerful binary package management. Having the ability to easily compile with custom options is good too, but there is no reason to compile everything from source (there are distros that do both well). You can have a system just as fast with binary packages (if not faster, actually- because it doesn't matter if you are using binaries or source), you just need to pick and choose what you install.
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Re:Who needs such a distro?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 15, 2006 04:27 AMI would suggest a distribution that allows you easily to build your system from the ground up, but has powerful binary package management. Having the ability to easily compile with custom options is good too, but there is no reason to compile everything from source (there are distros that do both well). You can have a system just as fast with binary packages (if not faster, actually- because it doesn't matter if you are using binaries or source), you just need to pick and choose what you install.
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