[ale] Distro

[Jeff Hubbs]

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 16:10, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> Gentoo would be good if you had a large number of identical machines to
> install to. Do one big emerge/install to one machine and then dd the
> drive around to the others. Or maybe rsync. Once you get past about 2
> machines, Gentoo is way too slow to install with. Needs _fast_ hardware
> for all that compilation.

Please understand that under Gentoo, the choice to compile everything is
just that - a choice.  You can install binaries and you won't hurt for
much.  You may have to compile a kernel; I'm not sure how how mandatory
that is.

Jeff