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dungscooperdave
04-11-2003, 03:44 PM
Just got finished recompiling my kernel for my system's architecture for the first in my life. It was wicked easy (Yes, I'm from Boston. ;)). I just followed the instructions here (http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Kernel-HOWTO-2.html). I've already noticed a fairly big difference in speed :). Now if only I could reduce the sluggishness I expreience with gnome's graphics. I'm thinking about trying gentoo out soon. To save much time and effort, could I just copy my /boot/config-2.4.21-0.13mdksmp onto a disk, and then when I go to configure my kernel in the gentoo install, just use this configuration file for compiling my kernel?
im not familiar with that file. what is it?
if you wanted to, you could copy /usr/src/linux/.config over and use that but you would have to use make oldconfig (instead of or before) running make menuconfig to account for any different options in the gentoo kernel and the one you just compiled.
imho - it's a waste of time.
dungscooperdave
04-11-2003, 03:58 PM
Originally posted by Hayl
im not familiar with that file. what is it?
Basically the equivalent of /usr/src/linux/.config.
imho - it's a waste of time.
Explain please. Why?
if you want speed and performance for applications you should try a light Window Manager like Blackbox, WindowMaker, ICEwm, they do not hog resources like Gnome or KDE does...
P.S. cram as much RAM in your computer as possible...
dungscooperdave
04-11-2003, 05:12 PM
How does 512MB sound?
dungscooperdave
04-11-2003, 05:15 PM
My only real complaint about speed is that when I use Aqua/Bubble themes in Gnome the graphics start to really lag. I was really hoping to use Gentoo mostly because of the portage system. I figured any optimization and speed I got out of the deal would be an extra plus. Do you have to compile your kernel manually when installing Debian?