On Mon Jun 02, 2003 at 09:23:36PM -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: [...] > > I have > > just the opposite experience. To me 9.1 compared to 8.2 is sleek and > > fast (run on the same hardware so I can compare). > > I've started to use Mandrake Linux with version 5.3 and I see a straight > > line of improvement, well, if you scratch 7.0 which was a piece of crap > > IMHO. > > What do your benchmarks say, or have you run any? FYI the hardware > here is identical to the LM82 days, as I have previously stated. As > are the names of the apps. Same app names, same hardware, different > distro.
Same app names, different apps. AFAIK, there is nothing that is exactly the same as 8.2, be it KDE (KDE2 vs. KDE3), GNOME (GNOME1.4 vs. GNOME2), the kernel, and pretty much everything else included in the box. *Everything* has been upgraded between 8.2 and 9.1, so just because, for example, jpilot was included in both, doesn't mean that jpilot hasn't changed and could, in itself, be slower (nevermind outside interference from other components/libs that have changed). (Disclaimer: I don't actually use jpilot; it just popped in my head). You have to understand that they are two completely different OS's... compilers have changed, glibc has changed, etc. That impacts a lot of stuff. We also can't go back to the glibc from 8.2 (if, for example, that's where our speed loss came from) because we would be obsoleting ourselves before we even released the product. All the newer commercial apps are being compiled against the newer glibc, so we have to keep up to speed with that. The same goes for other components. Now, I can't honestly say if one is faster than the other as I ran 8.2 on a single CPU Athlon 950 whereas I am now using a dual CPU Athlon 1600. So 9.1 feels miles faster, but that's due to the hardware more than anything else I'm sure. =) -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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