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The linux test is back
Lead Head:
I got fedora, mandriva and openSuSE. I like fedora and openSuSE, but not mandrive so much
Calum:
that's a great test! it gave me fedora for first choice, and kubuntu, mandriva, ubuntu and debian as runner ups, which is basically my actual top five of preference. it missed out good old slack though, don't know why that wasn't in the list, since i arguably prefer it over mandrake.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: GenuineAdvantage ---My result is Fedora. I have it installed, but recently I've been using others more. The results said something about speed. What? Fedora is faster than Ubuntu, Debian and Mandriva??? Seems the same to me even on this old thing.
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Well, I now know that speed depends on a lot of things ... least of all your distro. Using a different window manager will increase speed up to 100 fold (fluxbox or XFCE or other light wms). Using initng instead of initrc may also significantly increase boot speed (if you ever figure out how to configure it). Compiling everything from source will also increase speed, but you probably won't notice it much. Like for example compiling a game from source rather than binary saved me about 2-5 FPS ... great ... well not really noticible unless you get very low FPS anyway. Running prelink will really speed things up too. etc. etc. Distro does not mean too much here ... unless it's poorly configured, but even then it has to be really horribly configured to notice a difference in speed.
jtpenrod:
My results were: Slackware and Gentoo. I prefer Slack, and that's what I've been running for a couple of years now. Only complaint I have with Slack is that I prefer Enlightenment over either KDE or GNOME, and E isn't included on the Slack CDs.
Of course, it's NBD to install something like Fluxbox, which is included, and go get the E "tarballs" and compile and install it.
solemnwarning:
I'm using debian, it gave me debian and kubuntu
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