On Fri, 10 May 2002 08:11:57 -0400 "Brian Witowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Suse is supposedly built specifically for Intel processors. Are there any > real-world advantages or is it just fluff? SuSE I think is built with 486 optimizations. I don't really have any definitive benchmarking results, but running a full install, all packages, of 7.3 Pro, was remarkably faster on an AMD Athlon 1.4, 512MB SDRAM, Radeon 8500, EPoX 8KTA3Pro with VIA KT133A desktop than on a P4 1.8ghz, 256mb DDR, Mobility Radeon 7500, Intel 830M notebook, and I upgraded XFree to 4.2.0 just to make things a little better, so the laptop's 7500 did have 3D accel. That only gave it a higher glxgears "score," but otherwise no improvement. I guess, then, it's only Intel optimized to the point where it won't run on a 386 or a Sparc, PPC, Alpha, etc (except for the Sparc and PPC versions). > Also, whats the general opinion of Gentoo thus far? I think Portage is > awsome. The need for an internet connection is a drawback but it also has > many advantages. My Gentoo install seems much less bloated and runs quite > smoothly. Including KDE3. I've got Gentoo on that Athlon 1.4 now. It's about twice as fast as SuSE 7.3. I think it's a combination of the full optimization from the beginning and the switch from reiserfs to XFS. One complaint is that sound worked for a while, then I did that little rm -rf /etc trick, and lo and behold, no sound in KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker, Enlightenment, or anything else (except for the speaker pop on driver initialization). SuSE did at least give me a reinstall option if I hosed everything, but Gentoo on 28.8k is living just a bit dangerously. > Brian > > Bob Raymond _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
