What linux distro do you use?

[adventure_of_link]

I've used SuSE Linux 7 pro, Caldra Open Linux 2.0, and Linspire 4.9.x. However, since Linspire seems to be the only Linux distro which agrees with my system ATM, I use that.

[analgesic]

Another FreeBSD user here, though I usually have a Knoppix CD lying around somewhere.

[soulmata]

I'm tempted to install gentoo, it looks to be really good. From what I read on distrowatch, its the one that compiles completely from source if you want it to right? The first thing I would think is that doing that would be beneficial, but in truth, would it be any faster than to install pre-compiled binaries?

Maybe a little bit, unless you happen to choose CFLAGS which actually make the app slower, which is quite possible. Also, compiling large things like KDE can take days.

Days on what system? On an athlon 1900+ I can compile the entire KDE set of packages (including kdebase and all the addons) in just a few hours.

No shit? The last time I tried compiling it was with FreeBSD on a Pentium-M 1.4 GHz, which should be at least as fast as that Athlon XP. It took almost 36 hours. That was without kde-office and kde-games.

1) P4-M has seriously low memory bandwidth, especially at 1.4ghz

2) The KDEENABLEFINAL flag, when passed to GCC (as a CFLAG) , speeds up compile time dramatically.

3) Mon Apr 11 21:47:40 2005 >>> kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r2
merge time: 45 minutes and 18 seconds.

Owned fucker. The rest of the packages varied from 3 - 15 minutes, with a total merge time of less than 2.5 hours on that very same AXP.

[Nach]

P4-M?

Perhaps you mean P3-M?

[funkyass]

P4-M?

Perhaps you mean P3-M?

there was a mobile P4 before Intel dumprf that bad anal experience known as rambus

[adventure_of_link]

...what's wrong with rambus?

[Clements]

...what's wrong with rambus?

The price and performance.

[Nach]

P4-M?

Perhaps you mean P3-M?

there was a mobile P4 before Intel dumprf that bad anal experience known as rambus

Well the poster above wasn't refering to Pentium 4 Mobile, he's referring to the Pentium-M. The Pentium-M is a low power version of Pentium 3 with MMX, SSE and SSE2 instruction set support.

[soulmata]

P4-M?

Perhaps you mean P3-M?

Just because it is based on a modified p3 architecture does not mean it is not referred to as a P3-M. I work for an authorized intel provider and guess what, both the intel reps and our local reps refer to it as a P4-M.

So eat me.

But if he meant an older Pentium-M, then my bad, big deal, however my point remains, because the OLDER p-M did not have the performance boost that the new line does. He compared it to an AXP , which makes me think NEW.

[Noxious Ninja]

It was some fairly recent Dell Centrino laptop. I don't remember what model it was.

[Aerdan]

I'm tempted to install gentoo, it looks to be really good. From what I read on distrowatch, its the one that compiles completely from source if you want it to right? The first thing I would think is that doing that would be beneficial, but in truth, would it be any faster than to install pre-compiled binaries?

Maybe a little bit, unless you happen to choose CFLAGS which actually make the app slower, which is quite possible. Also, compiling large things like KDE can take days.

Days on what system? On an athlon 1900+ I can compile the entire KDE set of packages (including kdebase and all the addons) in just a few hours.

No shit? The last time I tried compiling it was with FreeBSD on a Pentium-M 1.4 GHz, which should be at least as fast as that Athlon XP. It took almost 36 hours. That was without kde-office and kde-games.

Haha. Pentiums have a higher clock speed, but they make up for this in being shitty in everything else. *rolleyes*

[soulmata]

The latest line of mobile pentiums are very good performers, Aerdan. A 2ghz P(4)M (adjust at your discretion), aside from memory bandwidth, would whoop a p4 2.6ghz.