Re: [LAU] Gentoo as a DAW platform

On Sun, 10 May 2009, Ray Rashif wrote: I've already avoided getting sucked into that in my life with FreeBSD. I use only '-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe' and nothing else. If I were to go to Gentoo, I wouldn't be seeking compiler optimizations so much as freedom to keep consistent things that distros change their minds about just as soon as you think you've found one with policies you like. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse...I used to think they were each mistakes in a learning process until I finally realized that at the particular time I liked each one, it was because of something they were each respectively doing right at the time. They just change their minds and you have to go looking for a new "least evil choice." I think one possibly overlooked advantage of a source-based distro is it might give you a platform where you can adopt a policy of your own for how things are going to be and expect that it will stay the same long enough for you to enjoy it. I don't know, I'm still trying to decide though, and I am open to all kinds of ideas. -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of + Physical Sciences Div. + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, + James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky