From: "Amol Hatwar" amol@hatwar.org

Yeah it does take quite a lot of bandwidth. But everything runs fast once you do a custom compile. I had done a kernel compile using ck sources and multimedia apps ran considerably faster.

See that's also one of the ideas of having sources available, compile according to your needs and optimizations :). And you actually end-up learning quite a lot of how various pieces of software made by different people fit together.

Does Gentoo require only the kernel to be compiled or are all the softwares compiled from source?

Regards Dinesh

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