[plug] Distro Day !!!

[indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU]

Just to point out, I don't care which we use for the test.

It's a general performance test where we hope to discover
some things about the benefits of Gentoo "optimized compiled"
software, vs. Mandrake's pentium tuned packages and Debian's
i386 packages.

To that end, in the DE environment is only really a factor
in the "user feel" portion. We will be doing some hard numbers tests
with Gimp and I'm still hoping someone can suggest some OOo tests,
but since all three distros will be tested with the same desktop, I'm
not sure it matters.
BUT if someone knows a reason it does, I'd like to hear about it...

We won't be testing "ease of use", just feel of snappiness.

We don't want to try a lightweight WM, as the point is not to say
"all the distros felt snappy with IceWM" as it's not really news.

In fact it's possible we should be looking for the bloatiest desktop,
so as to make detecting "distro based performance gains" easier.

I'll repeat one of my sub-questions again, is one
of the distros implementation of ext3/reiser/kde/gnome/whatever
known to be broken? We wouldn't want that to quer the test...

*Distros to be looked at are Gentoo, Mandrake, Debian.
We're exploring package compilation differences here more than
anything, so don't be disturbed that $Favourite_Distro is missing.


Indy.



On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 02:00:13PM +0800, John Knight wrote:
> >I guess I'd propose ext3 as the file type (although I'm a reiser user 
> >myself)
> >as it seems to be the current epitomy of "bog standard."
> >I guess all 3 distros have the chioce of both in install?
> 
> Sure, why not? :)
> 
> >Everyone please comment on this, as well as KDE/Gnome preference,
> >suggestions for services running for the test and partitioning.
> 
> Okay, but you're going into flame territory.... Most people that I've asked 
> about their first try of Linux hated it, because they were using GNOME, but 
> when the tried KDE, they didn't mind the GUI at all. KDE tends to be more 
> about usability and sleeker controls, whereas GNOME is more geared towards 
> serious functionality and customisablity. Personally I much prefer KDE, I 
> try to use GNOME again every few months but find the environment too bland 
> and the interface too clumsy in comparison to KDE's refined controls. Apart 
> from that, why not break the mould? Blackbox, WindowMaker, or perhaps IceWM 
> for the '95ers? ;)
> 
> This is serious flame territory, so get ready for the email hit.
> 
> fruit/vegetable with alleged anarchic tendencies
> 
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