Gentoo X5000?

[xeno74]

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

[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.

[xeno74]

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?

[marcus]

Sure. I'm using Sawfish with the Crux theme. The desktop environment is XFCE4.

[xeno74]

Hi Marcus,

Thanks a lot for the screenshot! It looks interesting!

Cheers,
Christian