From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F81198005 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 746DFE0729; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E9221E06B1 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:22:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f181.google.com with SMTP id t44so2101840wey.12 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:22:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uJdDPOlEtr2brJgMpMmQDe5poS2ZjTZ/ZOSVLVserUs=; b=GDk4yO34xX9KZYsj0bixjd7YBbQ6fkc2Y5pK8gq2T9vFFJtIFClNMygdwSYriAyfrK hoB6KEdc3y6QTRtCTqFjN9LJfbbD7Uw3kfTodRBlgcrTzD7C9//pVkViTgLqPd5dn+Fi Pw7kEeN6NvS3uMfMiSLmb+7fK5/8BJR2ZX7bu7RtuD9mdWYTYRjFQJLkjm7Mese6tAvA KYMltJUOpqzGBEsDEobT48YqHqRrOWKAgu5GW1m7/dySuSFDhCV0bf26h/SnMz+f19M4 B5wAWEJwoit7U3C8+tORWMoa1Ayg9WEkCv1h2y6t/B1W05Sng6LME/VRGiweWTXLwMed AO1Q== X-Received: by 10.194.170.165 with SMTP id an5mr4033410wjc.41.1363267375449; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-215-205-209.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.205.209]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r7sm4047249wiz.2.2013.03.14.06.22.53 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:22:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5141CEB0.7030209@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:20:48 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130304 Thunderbird/17.0.3 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros References: <51418728.7020406@gmail.com> <5141B4B2.1040106@gmail.com> <5141B649.1090606@gmail.com> <5141C33A.9050503@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5141C33A.9050503@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 71649d4a-19bc-49ea-bb94-63c1a5100650 X-Archives-Hash: e58e9bf921f5e4e0f417fbe4bf6af862 On 14/03/2013 14:31, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On 03/14/2013 07:36 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 14/03/2013 13:29, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >>> On 03/14/2013 04:15 PM, Dale wrote: >>>> Also, I read that Nasdaq runs a modified version of Gentoo. Do any >>>> other large corps run it that we know of? >>>> >>> What exactly does it mean to run a "modified version of Gentoo"? Don't >>> we all? ;) >> >> I've always claimed to colleagues that there is no such thing as >> "a running Gentoo". >> >> There's an AlanOS, and a DaleOS and a MarkOS and they are all forks of >> Gentoo, but nobody actually ever runs "Gentoo" >> >> :-) > Smart call that you called it a "running" Gentoo rather than an > "installed" one, because my followup question would have been, "Well > what exactly does it mean to have installed Gentoo? I've had this laptop > two years now and I'm still not done tinkering with it!" ;) This is my fifth Dell laptop in a row with Gentoo installed. Tinkering? yeah I do that too :-) Some days this system looks like one of those crazy Wily E. Coyote machines with all the bits I bolt on the back :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com