Don't be conned by the speed argument, you'll only be gaining 2-3% at best.
What arch, gentoo, etc. really get you is configurability, but you WILL be paying for that by spending more time in actually doing the configuration and maintaining it. It's a trade-off, if you want to be able to optimise your boot sequence to <5 seconds then it can happen, but you'll still be using the same NVidia driver and the same JVM binary. If you want things to be less stressful, you're probably better sticking with Ubuntu. On 11 September 2012 15:09, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > Well yes... sticking with a release is an option too. The problem is that > I have to try once in a while something new. Which usually does not exist > yet for the older releases. Or you can not install recent software because > it has a dependency with a new version of a library. > > Oh yeah: I have to run VMWare player once in while too. > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:06 PM, ags <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you have the time, why not. >> I'm a lazy person, I'm sticking with Ubuntu 11.04 so far, does the job, 2 >> and 3 screen configuration (dual geforce cards). >> JVMs work, jee works, nothing really to complain about. No major updates, >> no fights here as well. >> >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I'm curious about Arch Linux - said to be fast, stable and doing rolling >>> updates. The initial setup is a bit long. But it seems pretty fast indeed. >>> However, I've got the impression the fine-print on the wiki reads: "updates >>> are at your own risk". :-) >>> >>> What I'm looking for: >>> >>> - Fast - so I can squeeze every cycle. >>> - Runs the regular Sun/Oracle JVMs. >>> - Runs the regular JEE development software. >>> - Runs in NVidia Twinview for two screens. >>> - Should never be upgraded to major versions like Ubuntu's & al. >>> Only an endless stream of updates. >>> - It's my machine at work - so I want it to work with it. Not fight >>> it after each update. >>> >>> Is Arch all that ? Any other distro's satisfying the criteria ? >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
