Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Benefits of source distro(Gentoo)somewhatelusive :-)

[Stuart Guthrie <slug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Without significant numbers of the OS community dedicated to squeezing 
performance, via whatever obscure optimisations are available, we would 
all be a lot worse off. Much of this work filters back into the general 
releases and therefore benefits us all. It is the people with this focus 
that enable this to happen.

At various sites, the need for optimisation does rear it's head and to 
say 'throw more hardware at it' is sometimes (not always) to be fiscally 
and environmentally irresponsible and somewhat lazy.

Ben, if you are into linux optimisations all power to you. In fact it 
would make an interesting talk at slug IMHO.


Stu