> Interesting, I feel tempted to try it myself. Maybe it's the kernel? :) If you got some time please do - it's probably a lot more helpfull if an experience developer can comment on this than just a user's impressions.
> You should try prelinking your Debian system and document the effect. I kinda tried this before with my current Munjoy installation using "prelink --all", but I'm not so sure if it worked because i got some errors. And didn't really 'benchmark'. But I will try again for sure. Having read abit through the yoper forums I come to believe that besides prelink the most noticable effect seems to be due to the kernel patches by Con Kolivas - I don't know exactly which of the patches are included. Maybe it's the whole patchset he provides. Posted by user "yoper" in a thread about loosing performance when compiling software yourself: "Speed will be fine since prelinking is run every night via a cronjob As long as you base your own kernels on our kernel-source (which contains the con kolivas patches) your speed will not suffer." > I'm using an environment in Debian that reassembles the one shipped with > Yoper (but without a special kernel) and I can't complain even a little > about the performance. I would not have complained before either. There is nothing wrong with the performance of my Debian isntallation.. at least there was nothing wrong ;) It's just that right now Yoper feels so much faster for me that I consider leaving it on my main (desktop) machine for now and see what happens. Maybe your debian system is better optimized so you won't feel too much difference - not sure. > There is not a lot in DDD to involved in ATM except dcontrol... It's more > of a springboard to other projects IMHO. I'm actually more involved in > Kalyxo[0] - an attempt to bring KDE and Debian closer together. Cool, I think Kalyxo is a great project and holds much promise. Couldn't live withouth the akregator and amarok packages anymore ;) Good to see that there actually are people interested in a nice and consistent Debian KDE desktop on this list - one thing that I wondered is how DDD will compare to pure KDE based distributions that focus on integrating everything into the KDE desktop as well as possible - with guys from Kalyxo around I have no doubts there anymore :) > > I'm just reading through debiandesktop.org - nice to see more information > > available to the broader public, though now that I see the relationship > > between "desktop" and the rest of Debian specific desktop packages seem > > even more unlikely. > > Sorry, I don't understand this. Would you care to eloborate? Sure - if all I can do is talk to make Debian better you bet I will ;) What I meant was that before I read through debiandesktop.org I was unsure how the "desktop"-tree of Debian will be handled. Now I understand that this will basically be "testing" with packages from "unstable" coming in a bit faster. This means that all of the packages will be i386 and ppc - no i686 packages, since the packages will be "pure debian" (ok, DDD will be that too in the end). Before that, I thought there would be packages build specifically for DDD - so that building those with i686 in mind would have been possible.
