Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

[carmen r]

On Tue Sep 09, 2008 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Al Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:00:36PM +0100, Al Johnson wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > > > I hope you guys don't mind killing your phone or uSD's memory sooner
> > > > than everyone else :)
> > >
> > > Why? Are you making some unwarranted assumptions about using Gentoo on
> > > embedded systems?
> >
> > No unwarranted assumption, the only argument you could throw back at me is
> > an argument against using Gentoo instead of any .deb or .rpm based
> > distribution ;)
> >
> > Please, no distro-war, you're free to kill your flash devices sooner ;)
> 
> I use Gentoo, CentOS, Fedora and Debian so no war here :-) I'm just curious 
> why you think Gentoo will wear out flash devices sooner than any other distro 
> if reasonably configured. The key here is probably 'reasonable' as I would 
> build packages on a more capable machine and use binary-only merges, and 
> various directories may find themselves mounted over the network.

im surprised at the popularity of these 'images' and flashing the entire device


surely a distro with piecemeal upgrade puts less wear and tear on the flash

and debian's lack of USE/config support means you generally get a larger binary with more stuff enabled - so more wear and tear


whats the big fear anywyas. MTFB is like 1 million rewrites, and you have hardware and FS level wear-leveling/block-masking anwyays


surely youll want a bigger HD or a phone with 3G and a camera before then



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