Re: Wishlist: Source-based option

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 02:18, Jesse Keating wrote:

> The problem, is that each level of optimization you go up, your system becomes 
> exponentially more unstable.  Ask any gentoo user, and they'll brag about how 
> fast their system boots up.  Boots up?  I worry about that once a month or 
> so, when kernel errata is released.  Gentoo users are usually a daily 
> occurrence when dealing with top level optimizations.

My coworker installed Gentoo on something like 8 or 10 machines at his
house and work. I tried it on my main workstation. I don't recall him
telling me he had any lockups. I had one, and that was when I was trying
to get the nvidia drivers working. I gave up on that, because when they
don't work right, they'll bring _any_ distro down. (Don't tell me they
won't. I've rebooted my Red Hat boxes waaayyyy too many times because of
those infernal drivers.)

My latest instability is getting a network connection to my Tungsten
through my Phoebe3 box. More than half the time when I go to connect the
thing on the USB port, I lockup either the Tungsten, the PC, or both. I
have been holding my tongue, thinking this was a new issue because there
aren't many people trying this, or, hey, after all, this is a beta. But
it's annoying nevertheless. (And it's doing it to two different
machines, so I don't think it's hardware related.)

Just remember that everyone's mileage may vary. ;-)

dk




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