I'm was using Gentoo 1.2, then I went to Mandrake 9.0 then back to Gentoo 1.4. 1.2 and 1.4 both *felt* a lot faster than Mandrake. Everyone else I've talked to who has installed Gentoo has found it faster than Mandrake..maybe it's subjective, but at the end of the day if you feel it's faster, then you are happier with it.
You can use prelinking on Gentoo, but I'm not using it at the moment. But some real benchmarks would be good :) Cheers Simon On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:41, Matthew Gregan wrote: > What versions of Gentoo and Mandrake are we even talking about? I > suspect the difference may be caused by something like ELF pre-linking > on the Gentoo box. > > I realise the whole system has been "optimized", but what benchmarks do > you have to prove how much faster it is, other than subjective things > like "x and y start faster"? > > Google doesn't turn much up, for me, in the way of Gentoo versus > whatever benchmarks. I think it might be time to get a copy of Gentoo > for myself and do some real benchmarks. > > Cheers, > -mjg -- Simon Hansman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
