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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Linux/BSD distribution O/T
From:       Jonas Widarsson <jonas.widarsson () home ! se>
Date:       2004-10-27 9:20:09
Message-ID: 200410271118.10202.jonas.widarsson () home ! se
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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
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