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GENTOO is Rice
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Gentoo is for Ricers
Welcome, this page is dedicated to the Linux Community's greatest<br>ambassadors, Gentoo users. Like the annoying teenager next door with a<br>90hp import sporting a 6 foot tall bolt-on wing, Gentoo users are proof<br>that society is best served by roving gangs of armed vigilantes, dishing<br>out swift, cold justice with baseball bats to those fucking ricer<br>bastards.
Please note, these quotes are real. I didn't bother to link to the<br>original quotes because it's too much work and this page is mostly an<br>amalgamation of different things that I've found on the web. Besides, we<br>all know people like this, if you spent 6 hours compiling X, you'd like<br>to think it was for something useful right? You can't make this shit<br>up, we're not kidding. People like this are real. While some pages<br>attempt a more practical look at a Gentoo user's behavior, we're not so<br>lenient. Most of these quotes come from the Gentoo forums themselves or<br>from slashdot.
We've bolded things that are just so ludicrous that you need to sit down to read them.
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The true ricer spirit lives on.
HOLY COW I'M TOTALLY GOING SO FAST OH F***
"I am going to try to squeeze another 6% out of my system. It's the<br>fact that you know your system is about as optimized as it's going to<br>get. Also, my old Athlon Xp 1500 smokes most of the 2.0Ghz+ boxes.. And<br>that's what it's all about."
"The performance gained by CFLAGS on x86 is minimal at best -- largely because the machines are still basically overclocked 386's at their core."
"Why in the hell are using software compiled for a 386 on a Pentium 4 class machine?"
"There are so many steps involved in tweaking the last uumph out of<br>your linux system- and it really is a work of art to pull it off- I have<br>used many different kernels and all sorts of optimization<br>combinations-yesterday I finally used -noatime and -notail for my<br>reiserfs file system: The single biggest performance boost I have yet to<br>see-now I can have gnome2.2 running using gnome-terminal to compile the<br>latest j2sdk from source (nice -n 19)while browsing with mozilla while<br>running e17 in a seperate login with two eterms and run Unreal<br>Tournament at full speed (this with an apache webserver running for my<br>dyndns pseudo-domain and a mysql for my answering-machine software for<br>my isdn card-which keeps track of all incomming phonecalls and manages<br>my telephone book app and ntfsd/sshd/dhcp server/squid)..."
"its -O3 the letter, not -03 the number"
"I love building all sources from scratch, then it will be optimized<br>and made to run smooth for MY machine. as Debian normally uses binary<br>packages, yeah dependencies crap may happen, that's odd, you might as<br>well just switch to pure source base distro, right."
"I notice that my disk does a whole lot of thrashing when I boot up. I<br>have a lot of stuff that gets loaded into memory every time I boot,<br>like X11, ion2, Firefox, Eterm, Thunderbird, etc. It seems to me that<br>putting all of the files necessary to those apps in a contiguous section<br>on the disk and loading that into memory in one shot would be a whole<br>lot faster. Is there a way to do this? Is it stupid?"
"I use Gentoo because I'm a speed freak - I can't stand the thought<br>that some of my packages might not be running as fast as they could be."
". . . and I liked the idea of running an entire system that wasn't compiled for a 386."
"Without a doubt, Gentoo has set itself apart from every other distro<br>out there. Because it's source-based, it's notorious for its speed.<br>Because of emerge, it's notorious for being simple to maintain."
Yea, I really don't understand all the complaints about the time to<br>install gentoo. It is like complaining about your Ferrari because the<br>dealership was so far away.
"I find it suprising no one has mentioned the fact that Gentoo the<br>only mainstream distro that uses gcc3 for everything. That's what<br>brought me to Gentoo in the first place."
"If Debian people think compiling sucks, well so what? I guess<br>they're satisfied with Someone Else's Binaries. I prefer to play on<br>Gentoo's strengths. I get exactly what I want compiled in -- nothing<br>less, nothing more, and with the optimizations I want."
"Yet, binary distros are riddled with bugs, and are much more<br>annoying to fix given the the cumbersome edit/build package/install<br>package cycle."
"As a Gentoo user what really stands out to me is that this test was<br>clearly biased away from Linux. If the reviewers had been serious they<br>would have used an optimised distributions such as Gentoo, which would<br>have taken far fuller advantage of the extra 32bits in each register to<br>provide a much fuller experience, more than any current Linux<br>distribution possibly could. It really saddens me to see that people go<br>out of their way to spend so much money...