From kde-devel Wed Oct 27 09:20:09 2004 From: Jonas Widarsson Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:20:09 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: KDE Linux/BSD distribution O/T Message-Id: <200410271118.10202.jonas.widarsson () home ! se> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=109886880912786 On Wednesday 27 October 2004 00.53, Michael Pyne wrote: > I wish people would find something different to complain about with Gentoo, > it's not like you can't *use* your system while it's compiling. Something off topic is needed to be said here. I actually cancelled a very well thought of post ten minutes ago, realising it wouldn't add much to this discussion but some I like gentoo noise... But still, this needs to be said: If anyone goes gentoo, make sure you use one of the low latency kernels offered. The ck-sources (http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-kernel/ck-sources) are optimised for low latency and are very nice for desktop use. Personally I use gentoo-dev-sources (http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources) which are based on ck-sources and optimised further in different aspects (I won't summarize here). My message is, that with these sources runnning, and X.org installed, the multitasking is just awesome. When cron runs updatedb, I almost do not notice, until I realise the CPU fan is running faster. Then I check CTRL+Esc and discover updatedb running. The same goes for compiling. Your computer might whine about working hard as far as statistics goes, but you don't feel it. Perhaps I should mention my CPU is a Pentium4 2.6 GHz. But then I would also need to add that my computer was really lousy and even the mouse was jumpy when using various standard kernels and compiling. I say this to engage the critics of a computer being unusable while it's compiling. With gentoo-dev-sources (gentoo patched 2.6.8) I don't even notice. /Jonas -- tel: +46 271 121 42 tel: +46 271 152 00 (work) gsm: +46 70 539 64 79 >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<