On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 18:40 +0200, Roland Kaeser wrote:
Hello
There is a mistake. I would like to completly rebuild the whole
distribution rmps from the srpms iso's not just the kernel.
Kind regards
Roland Kaeser
Are you considering the amount of cpu time required to build this entire
distro? It is not something I think you want to do on a workstation,
I'd suggest rebuilding only those individual packages for apps you run
constantly. Build firefox, the KDE packages, xorg-x11, and the kernel,
perhaps a very few others.
If absolute optimization is your goal, go Gentoo, and experience that
extra 5% Alan is talking about in his post. I've found rebuilding i686
for the constant use packages makes them 'feel' faster, but I am not
positive it is more than illusion. Rebuilding FC2 will take longer than
a complete build of Gentoo.
Why will it help very little? FC already used the best possible choice
of instruction order for pentium-pro and up machines, which means unless
your app is going to be using SSE instructions there isn't that much
more you can do.
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