codifies
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Ever since becoming decidedly underwhelmed with Debian's decreasing reliability and increasingly restrictive packaging choices (the dependency graph can limit your choices) I've become quite the Gentoo fan, with even the wife appreciating the speed compared to her previous Ubuntu setup (another one that's not as good as it used to be)
While previously I've discounted Gentoo as a choice on Arm systems, with the base speeds and increasing cores it begins to be practical without even having to set up distcc on a desktop to help it along (although its always an option)
While you wouldn't think it would make that much difference, the ability to very finely tune packages (and therefore dependencies) for less bloat and also tune the compiler exactly to the target CPU makes quite a noticeable difference even on x86 systems.
While I'll certainly be experimenting once my Rpi2 lands I was wondering if a base system for the Pyra using Gentoo would be of general interest to others...?
While previously I've discounted Gentoo as a choice on Arm systems, with the base speeds and increasing cores it begins to be practical without even having to set up distcc on a desktop to help it along (although its always an option)
While you wouldn't think it would make that much difference, the ability to very finely tune packages (and therefore dependencies) for less bloat and also tune the compiler exactly to the target CPU makes quite a noticeable difference even on x86 systems.
While I'll certainly be experimenting once my Rpi2 lands I was wondering if a base system for the Pyra using Gentoo would be of general interest to others...?