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Can anyone help me find a good distro ?
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---In my experience, no. I've compiled an entire FreeBSD system for i386, i686, and even athlon64. Synthetic benchmarks (UNIXBench, ubench) comparisons have never shown a difference to me on my system.
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Ok, thanks, that's what I thought. I suppose it only makes a difference in graphics intensive programs (games included) ... this is the only place I have noticed a difference when compiling for different architectures. The difference was not really that significant either ... just 3-6 fps more or less. It might also make a difference in any program that uses a lot of CPU time ... there are not too many of those ... and if there are, just compile them yourself.
H_TeXMeX_H:
Man, FC6 is seriously fucked up ... can't detect usbs properly ... barely boots properly ... nothing works properly ! What have they done ?!?
Trying Ubuntu next, and finally Gentoo (I can feel the impending headache even now)
toadlife:
Hey Tex, what kind of hardware do you run? Any exotic type hardware, like usb video cams, or TV tuners?
If not, perhaps you might want to try PC-BSD. It's like FreeBSD, only super easy to install and use. If you try it you'll have the added benefit of having someone here on the forums (ME) that can probably answer just about any post install question you have.
mobrien_12:
Synthetic benchmarks may not be the best.
Real world computational tests (how fast to compile something, encode to ogg vorbis, etc) do show a marginal benefit from CPU optimization, at least on all linux benchmarks I have read. The amount depends on the type of calculation. I would be suprised if FreeBSD didn't have similar benefits. It's really simple: CPU architectures get newer and newer improvements to their instruction sets which you simply do not take advantage of if you don't optimize. The improvements are obviously worthwhile since AMD and INTEL spend big bucks all the time to implement them.
Noteworthy is the 32 bit vs 64 bit optimization for x86-64. Going to 64 bit can make some hard core calculations work faster.
If I use a program often, and it pulls significant cpu power, I will optimize it. I've recompiled xmms so that it would minimize it's cpu impact (reduce skipping etc). XMMS doesn't impact the cpu much, but I found optimizing it helped when I was playing music files and also pushing my cpu to 100%.
I've never bothered to optimize an entire distro before (rarely do I push my cpu to 100% utilization anyway). I have heard anecdotal testimony that you can gain very fast systems doing so.
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---
If not, perhaps you might want to try PC-BSD. It's like FreeBSD, only super easy to install and use. If you try it you'll have the added benefit of having someone here on the forums (ME) that can probably answer just about any post install question you have.
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Toad, there was a freebsd-based live disk (not BSD disk 2) which was the answer to Knoppix. I posted about it a long time ago but can't remember the name. Do you know what it is?
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