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Re: Gentoo X5000?

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 1:09 pm
by xeno74
marcus wrote:I'm using gentoo (64bit userland) on the X5000. I used to run 32bit userland with 64bit multilib on the X1000, but there were some packages (notably the "go" programming language) which did not work correctly so I switched on the X5000.

There are quite a few packages that need local patches to work correctly, but at least with gentoo you can apply local patches in a sane way. :-)

make.conf settings:

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CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=e5500 -mno-altivec"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
USE="bindist -altivec"
VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonsi"
Hi Marcus,

Many thanks for reporting! Is Gentoo faster than the other Linux distributions? In my point of view it must be faster because of the CFLAGS.

Thanks,
Christian

Re: Gentoo X5000?

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 1:52 pm
by marcus
I haven't really compared the performance, all I can say for sure is that upgrading is slower since you have to compile everything yourself. :-)
The reason I use it is for the flexibility it brings.

Re: Gentoo X5000?

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 9:29 pm
by xeno74
marcus wrote:I haven't really compared the performance, all I can say for sure is that upgrading is slower since you have to compile everything yourself. :-)
The reason I use it is for the flexibility it brings.
Could you please post a screenshot of your Gentoo desktop? Which window manager do you use?

Re: Gentoo X5000?

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:16 am
by marcus
Sure. I'm using Sawfish with the Crux theme. The desktop environment is XFCE4.
Image

Re: Gentoo X5000?

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:28 am
by xeno74
Hi Marcus,

Thanks a lot for the screenshot! It looks interesting!

Cheers,
Christian