On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Al Smith wrote:
> Prove it.
>
> > Did you know that most of the bugs in the Red
> > Hat release are fixed in Mandrake?
Maybe "most" is exaggerated, but Mandrake 6.0 fixed a number of RH 6.0
bugs. Consult the RPM changelogs for details.
Yes, I know, it also introduced a couple of new bugs - that can't be
avoided completely...
> > Did you know that the guys at Mandrake
> > Linux included more updated packages?
Self-evident - compare the RPM directories on ftp.
> > Did you also care to know that every
> > single one of them runs like 10% to 15% faster on a pentium just
> > because they REBUILT the packages for an i586 architecture?
Run benchmarks and you'll see. Preferrably run them on Cooker because gcc
2.95.1 optimizes even better than pgcc 1.1.3.
LLaP
bero
