From: realnc@arcor.de   
      
   Arthur Hagen wrote:   
   > [...]   
   > What seems to make the most difference for KDE speed is to install   
   > prelink, and then prelink all libraries and binaries on the system, and   
   > then set the flag that tells KDE that the system is prelinked.  This is   
   > especially true on systems with relatively slow CPUs.   
      
   Does this have any ill effects with emerge?  RPM-based distros are   
   hash-checking the executables, modifying them can have strange effects.   
     Is emerge immune to that?   
      
      
   >> Now I'm not bashing openSUSE here!  It's a very nice distro (the best   
   >> binary distro for Desktops IMHO; I run away screaming when seeing   
   >> Ubuntu).  But I start to like Gentoo a lot and I use it more and more   
   >> often.   
   >   
   > There are other reasons to bash them, like their sleeping with   
   > Microsoft, or not supporting SElinux.  :-)  I used to be a SuSE   
   > supporter myself, but after they were bought by Novell, they have, IMhO,   
   > gone downhill.  OpenSuSE isn't much better, as it is limited by what the   
   > commercial parent distro does.   
      
   I'm not interested in political things, really.  I couldn't care less   
   about Novell's business decisions; openSUSE is a stable and polished   
   distro, and that's it.  Novell being Microsoft's b*tch is perhaps   
   important to Novell's commercial customers, not me.  If they want to   
   become "evil", let them be; the software in openSUSE isn't.   
      
   With the other big commercially backed-up distro called Fedora, I was   
   downgraded to a Red Hat beta tester with many things breaking   
   constantly.  This in not the case in all the years I use (open)SUSE.  At   
   least it doesn't feel that way.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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