[NBLUG/talk] GBLD (or similar)?

[Kyle Rankin]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:18:37PM -0800, Stephen Cilley wrote:
[snip]
> As for Gentoo, unless your friend is fairly
> comfortable with Linux/BSD/UNIX, I would most
> forcefully recomend against it.  I would recomend
> Ubuntu/Kubuntu.  Easy, everything just works.  It'll
> be slower than straight Debian, which is slower than
> Gentoo, but we're not talking anything more than a 10%
> boost in FPS, at best (rough estimate.)
> 

I've never seen anything more than anectdotal evidence to support a claim
that Gentoo is faster than any of the other distributions (although I've
seen a report in the past that showed some evidence that the Mandrake KDE
desktop was faster).

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