Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)"

["Philippe Lafoucrière" <lafou@wanadoo.fr>]

> Proper testing would have yielded different results.  Also, there is no
> way to duplicate the results since there is zero information on the
> setup.  In any scientific circle, this data would IMMEDIATELY be thrown
> out since it cannot be reproduced.  They also had no "control" group. 
> It would also have been nice to have seen them test Gentoo (optimized)
> against Gentoo (non-optimized).  Testing should have also been done on
> the SAME machine.  Not "identical" machines, but the exact same one. 
> The reason for this is there is the possibility that hardware could be
> causing a discrepancy in the results.
> 
> The "Gentoo Approach" also is not limited to simply optimization, but
> also to the customization and control over your system that a Gentoo
> user gets.
> 
> I have found that most Gentoo converts don't even bother to use much
> optimization, but rather enjoy the ease of use and control much more.

totally agree ! Btw, gnumeric speed is related to version apparently,
and they didn't use the official gentoo (patched) kernel ("The same
2.4.21 source was copied to all machines"). This sux !!

I don't use gentoo for optimization, but ease of use and management :)
I've tried to install a red hat 9. It's pretty fast for a i386 distro !
More faster to start openoffice for exemple. But redhat network updates
killed my nerves ! 

Gentoo roxor :)


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