[nzlug] Kernel squared

[Jim Cheetham]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:12:17AM +1200, Craig Box wrote:
> > Look at the flat-pack furniture market; you could buy a fully crafted
> > bookcase; you could make a flat-pack bookcase; or you could chop down
> > a tree and start there ...  
> 
> Not meaning to trample on your analogy, but flat-pack is cheaper and easier
> to obtain.  Due to the source-vs-binary size requirements of Gentoo, it's
> not exactly true in this case.

That wasn't the point of the analogy; I was trying to answer "why
bother". At serious scale, you don't waste time trying to optimise
the platform, you buy more hardware :-) But for a puzzled question of
"why bother with Gentoo" I thought it held up :-)

> Slight memory savings all around.

Now that is definately worthwhile on more limited platforms. If you
can't get more RAM, spend the time to reduce your app usage :-)

-jim