From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M66q4-0001ve-FS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 17:41:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE7E8E03D0; Mon, 18 May 2009 17:41:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 505C3E03D0 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 17:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 26so860624eyw.10 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 10:41:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=iUvPavZKwaLRh/fhhCJZwPzS2/lVSVHgWnjWWP0PTY4=; b=mBa4KvEIPk6i25S/NOZ8hcyWi+xHSEzlKc5PyikCpR42VnlsBPVI+mZqrQ4ccQUJGp eLfz6GAwFqSSSqb1uDdSSEiFMYzgHOtmGkZTpEUm6BkNuGBlgdLn0K0/SEd9c26AmD9u HxV0mFiiHbHaMPeNp38QLzZ+8JaBAPb6BnfdU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=kySGF6u/1SZvr7X4fLGEe4kJ3L+h/Q0E4DzSVBtSIQI7FWvVLW3B8DhOJx+Mmj0lMJ CG4GjK6QL64dzj6sGRanHXaLhRM2a2z2wtCpfv2n+BlfMZntdw5k9UrHPS6sK+DOP3zh jnsmsSaZlYdPovvataN8QmQ1zk2PfqkGAPLCg= Received: by 10.210.126.18 with SMTP id y18mr4309073ebc.62.1242668473607; Mon, 18 May 2009 10:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-19-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm1508800eyb.25.2009.05.18.10.41.11 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 18 May 2009 10:41:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 19:39:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A09312E.9010007@gmail.com> <4A11900E.7040800@gmail.com> <20090518171222.GA28590@linux1> In-Reply-To: <20090518171222.GA28590@linux1> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905181939.48524.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e847718c-9cbf-4653-9029-207bc0928cc1 X-Archives-Hash: fce84e47b785758e70050a49f987cf57 On Monday 18 May 2009 19:12:22 William Hubbs wrote: > Another difference is that, since you are compiling everything from > source, with the correct CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS settings in make.conf, you > can optimize the binaries you produce to take full advantage of your > processor, which you can't do on a binary distro since everything is > already compiled for you. Another word: That's ricing. Ok, that's two words. You get the idea. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com