On Apr 5, 8:46*am, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
> Everything is done. *I have a fully working KDE desktop, and the whole
> system was compiled with GCC 4.3.0, CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2
> -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" and LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed".
>
> One thing didn't compile though: kde-base/arts (an "undefined
> identifier" error, due to a missing #include). *So I had to do
> USE="-arts" for now.
>
> End-result: it's *damn* fast. *Well, at least compared to openSUSE 10.3.
> * No, it's not 5% faster. *Everything seems more like 100% faster.
> Well, perhaps openSUSE is "bloated", not sure. *But anyway, I must say
> I'm more than just impressed. *"startx" fires up KDE almost in an
> instant. *Every application starts immediately. *This is insane
>
> PS:
> It took me 2 days to get there though :P

Damn, sounds great.

Can you give a little more of a rundown of how it was done. What
version of GCC were you running (meaning compiled from source or from
a opensuse repo)..
I may have to try this on a test machine before I do it on my
production machine, but man.. sounds good.