--funroll-loops
I'm really fond of Gentoo. I'm running it on my laptop, and because distcc is very popular for speeding up whole-system compiles I deal with them fairly often. Like any group there are some pleasant and well-informed people and some who are less so. My impression is the overall level of experience (and maybe age) is lower than in Debian, but on the other hand you hear their project leaders calling each other assholes less often.
All that said, --funroll-loops is really funny:
This page is dedicated to the Linux Community's greatest ambassadors, Gentoo users. Like the annoying teenager next door with a 90hp import sporting a 6 foot tall bolt-on wing, Gentoo users are proof that society is best served by roving gangs of armed vigilantes, dishing out swift, cold justice with baseball bats to those fucking ricer bastards.
"I essentially started using Gentoo because my ....ing KDE clock would never show the right time in Red Hat."
"Watching shit scroll by for hours makes me a Linux expert overnight!"
I guess if it makes people happy and they learn something it's not all bad.
The whole thing kind of reminds of what Havoc said about metacity [img]:
Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.
posted Thu 1 Jul 2004 in /software/gentoo | link
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