[mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 11 March 2005 08:05, Michael Haan wrote:
> I agree.  i don't think it's so much the optimizations as it is the
> reduction in software bloat.

My thoughts exactly.

> Although, it is nice to know I'm running 
> 64 bit sw on my 64 bit CPU and to know that portage supports 64 bit sw
> distribution, whereas apt-get does not.

That's not quite accurate. apt supports a straight 64-bit system, it just 
doesn't support biarch (mixed 64- and 32-bit) systems. Note that yum and 
smart both support biarch without a problem though. Of course, yum is 
RPM-only (I believe), but smart has support for debs as well.

[...]
> > I think that the biggest reason Gentoo boxes seem faster has little to
> > do with such optimizations and everything to do with the fact that
> > Gentoo users tend to install less software.  Having to wait for
> > everything to build enforces a little discipline :-)

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