On 20 October 2010 17:31, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: > That just makes no sense whatsoever. The products are basically > repackaged from the vendor ( if that's the right word in this context ), > and the kernels have minimal differences.
Not entirely true, upstream distribution do a whole bunch of various patches. Perl is one such example of "lots of distro patches" to the point its quite mind numbing. And there are substantial differences in the kernels, esp with regard to various hacks that exist to get pretty bootsplashes. Their problem was not a performance one as such, but more a problem with the kernel distributed block device driver, which as I seem to recall, the problem was the version in the ubuntu kernels was for some bizzare reason 3 years out of date. > Although I wouldn't expect LastFM to be that busy a database really?? Scrobbling database is intense, massively massive HUGE amounts of commits. > Just as a parting thought... Ubuntu is just debian repackaged. It looks that way, but in many places there is an awful lot of stuff happening in "Just repackaging". Having a different init system for starters is a substantial enough change to cause headaches. -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
