<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 17 Apr 2008, at 14:01, Farran wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><snip></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="CITE"><br> <font color="#000000">Anyway, I was wondering if it's possible to install ubuntu from source, like you would with gentoo (I think that's right), where every package installs itself to work with your hardware perfectly... or does that completely defy the idea of ubuntu?</font></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Gentoo is a source distribution and as such compiles each individual package on your system using CFLAGS that (so the theory goes) milk the most performance out of your specific hardware (of course finding the correct CFLAGS can be a frustrating exercise for a user). <div>Ubuntu is a binary distribution so you have packages that have been compiled using CFLAGS that the developers have selected. These are normally the best choice for the WIDEST range of hardware. With a machine of your spec I very much doubt that the packages are the problem and as others have suggested I would check your hardware.<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Huw</div></div></body></html>