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 310FC198005 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56CACE0730; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:59:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out5.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out5.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.221]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8318CE065A for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:59:31 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAFAOTkQVE6B81//2dsb2JhbABExHiBYhZ0gioBAQV4EQsNCwkWDwkDAgECAUUTBgIBAYgPry6SB48XFoMqA4hyjWaFfSOKYoMXLw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,845,1355068800"; d="scan'208";a="105259507" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([58.7.205.127]) by icp-osb-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 14 Mar 2013 22:59:29 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9925BA99 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:59:30 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CVAgDhjXaKOh for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:59:23 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.3] (moriah [192.168.44.3]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF444810F for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:59:23 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <5141E5CB.8060304@iinet.net.au> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:59:23 +0800 From: William Kenworthy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130120 Thunderbird/17.0.2 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> <514194E9.2090808@iinet.net.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d404db65-ecef-4a8a-909e-248e29b4e8d3 X-Archives-Hash: 7f00386e790af1d5ba60a5c35cbd5ccd On 14/03/13 22:31, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Why I prefer Gentoo over other distros: Full control. > > That's it, in a nutshell. > >> I mean, I can (and do) leverage "-march=native". > > I've been scared away from -march and instead of -mtune in case i need > to drop my hard drive into another system for recovery which might > have an incompatible CPU. > Ok, thats another "valid comparison" to go with dropping Alans gentoo on a USB stick, centos on a DVD ... so what OS goes with a hard drive when its "dropped"? Is anyone near Piza ... Ive been told they have a tower that's been used for these types of test in the past. BillK