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 1RXf3L-0002Gb-Nk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:22:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F6B121C0C8; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 20:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8881721C0BE for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 20:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekb57 with SMTP id b57so874857eek.40 for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:20:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=JKdtHIyJ8nKpqvT/cq067gqUp94tUoBkywZywUZVIYU=; b=MVF9re0HBfF0XTI6VkbWXj2q9A9eoJ/VVfrIxE9IXRBsjPDBRb4thZG5TmIsoEr+rZ yDa3s8+yBAtV1eeZTdcyQ0GTh8GGSqA+SbZCIxOnotb4OGRhWV7lMK4VFcW53dSETD2V kaEqtiQWEXeEDicDorgy2KoT6+ui/9j0aaaGY= 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 Received: by 10.14.30.134 with SMTP id k6mr1430267eea.59.1323116438523; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.54.65 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:20:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111205201409.GA937@gaurahari.merseine.nu> References: <20111205201409.GA937@gaurahari.merseine.nu> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 15:20:38 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 51e17035-86ee-4858-83c2-cf9c390a99ea X-Archives-Hash: c6ff5f90a5053f3accb1f92f2ea23f79 On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Indi wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 06:40:03PM +0100, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:10 PM, LinuxIsOne wrote: >> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Indi wrote: >> > >> >> In fact, I like gentoo and FreeBSD best for low-spoec hardware. >> > >> > What does low-spec hardware mean? >> >> Whatever the default setup of the latest release of Ubuntu runs >> sluggish on. (Or what a previous version of Ubuntu ran on, but current >> versions won't) >> >> While somewhat flippant, that seems a pretty reasonable way to think about it. >> > > Seems to me Ubuntu is sluggish no matter what hardware you have. That's why I gave the description I did. What seems sluggish to you may not seem sluggish to me. It certainly won't seem sluggish to my grandmother... It tunes itself very nicely to the perceptions and needs of the individual in question. -- :wq