24 May
2005
24 May
'05
7:55 a.m.
Or if you have the time and inclination you can try installing Gentoo
from
Stage 1
What about the bandwidth? I thought you need to download the source for all apps from their site and compile it. Well, it does compile automatically but still...
Yeah it does take quite a lot of bandwidth. But everything runs fast once you do a custom compile. I had done a kernel compile using ck sources and multimedia apps ran considerably faster.
See that's also one of the ideas of having sources available, compile according to your needs and optimizations :). And you actually end-up learning quite a lot of how various pieces of software made by different people fit together.
Regards,
ah