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sizeak

Yay, I'll get on when its not 4am, like it is atm. For now I sleep though

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Gauvenator

gentoo and arch would definitely be easier. If i had to choose one for the purpose we want, I would go with gentoo. I'm no gentoo expert, but i think i went through an install once and it was fairly straightforward (at least compared to lfs lol) oh and btw gentoo uses Portage

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sizeak

Yeah but since everything is from source specific to the hardware its built on, it'd be a problem for a live CD

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Gauvenator

as long as we don't highly optimize the compilation we can make it compatible with x64 or x86 in general...how would any distro be able to redistribute binaries if they needed different ones for each hardware set?

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sizeak

Because they're not very optimized as you just said.... Hell I even stated "specific". You could not optimize it much, but then it negates the point, in which case we may as well use Arch which already has fast general binaries already built

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Gauvenator

we might as well...a few people here have experience with arch anyway

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sizeak

I would love to have an optimized to hell Gentoo install instead but for a Live CD, I just don't see it being practical

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thiussat

With Gentoo you can customize the GCC flags to work on any i686 processor. Really the optimizations in Gentoo are not Gentoo specific -- any distro can do it as the customizations depends on the GCC compiler options. It's just that most distros try to make it work on as much hardware as possible.

If you wanted optimizations you could create several liveCD's -- say one for Core2Duo, one for Athlon64, and one for the old 32 bit i686's.

I think it would be easier to just use a binary distro as a base. Making liveCD's nowadays is not that difficult since there have been a number of tools written that automates the process.

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