OT: Gentoo Q's

[Greg Hamilton]

My guess is it will run about the same. If you had more recent hardware 
you might notice a difference. The YDL binaries are compiled to run on 
a broad range of hardware by aiming for the lowest common denominator, 
which in this case is you. You'd probably see performance improvements 
over pre-built packages if you were compiling with a G4 or G5  with 
appropriate CPU specific compiler optimisations enabled.

I recently tried installing Gentoo on a spare partition on a G3 iBook 
which also runs OS X and YDL 3.01. The install process lies somewhere 
between irritating and torturous depending on your *nix experience. 
Personally I got fed up after a few hours and installed Debian instead. 
It was pretty straightforward and after getting a basic system up and 
then doing an apt-get dist-upgrade I was looking at something not far 
removed from my YDL desktop but with up-to-date(ish) packages (Gnome 
2.4, Mozilla 1.6, Firefox, Thunderbird, Evolution 1.4, Gimp 2.0, etc.) 
Pretty cool I suppose.

Not sure if it was really worth the bother. The Fedora based YDL 4.0 
will be available at the end of this month and I believe it promises 
the latest and greatest of everything including a 2.6 kernel. Sounds 
pretty sweet to me.

Greg



On 06/05/2004, at 1:58 PM, peter wrote:

> i'm thinking about trying out Gentoo on my powercenter, and i had a 
> couple questions for those of you who've tried it. the main question i 
> have is how much faster is gentoo in comparison to YDL? i'm running my 
> powercenter with stock hardware, no processor upgrades or extra RAM or 
> anything, and while the performance in YDL is usable, it leaves a bit 
> to be desired. also, i can't find much information about requirements 
> for hard drive space. as it stands i only have a 2.4GB drive and only 
> about 200MB is free on my YDL installation.
>
> thanks,
> peter
>
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