[plug] Distro Day2 Saturday 11th Oct 10am

[Scott Middleton]

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 13:05, Richard Meyer wrote:

> >
> 
> >What exactly is this?
> 
> It was an attempt to get an objective idea as to which Linux distros
> (kernel options + libs) were fastest on similar hardware.
> 
> >Whatever the event is, why is RH excluded?
> 
> I asked the same re SuSE last time and the answer was that the object of
> the distro day was to check out dissimilar distro's.
> 
> 1)Gentoo was included because it was a roll-your-own distro, where
> everything was compiled up front, with whatever optimization was best for
> that CPU.
> 
> 2)Debian was included because the Debian people would be furious if it was
> left out  ;) -- OK JOKE. It was included because it's a distro that runs on
> everything from i386 ---> i686.
> 
> 3)Mandrake was included because it is delivered from the factory with
> optimizations for more advanced chips, so should be the fastest commersial
> distro.
> 
> All other distros fell somewhere in between, and also they did not have
> unlimited time to test every distro out there.
> 
> These distros were felt to express the extremes of the Linux world.
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong - Indy, Scott, Matt, Bill?


Actually spot on. I just have to click cancel on my reply which wasn't
as good.
But also check out www.linmagau.org 
All the information is there along with the results.

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> RichardM
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Scott Middleton <scott at linuxit.com.au>
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