For all that don't know, I was a proponent of RedHat for 10 years and only up until recently did I actually quit "playing" with MDK and start using full time on my primary workstation/server. Meanwhile, I just wanted to express some of what I've observed from a workstation/server perspective as far as overall performance goes:
* Samba works faster than I've ever seen it work before. I don't know if it's because of just the overall setup, or the ReiserFS that I use; but it's blazing - whereas on RH - no matter what kind of setup I've done, there is always a lag time/refresh time that begins to get rather annoying. It's important for me to use Samba for in-home and for clients/customers - and with performance like this - it truly outshines anything I've done before with a RH server - and this is 9.1rc2 !! * System wide performance is astounding - even though I tweak the daylights outta RH after an installation, I ain't come close to this type of performance and response. * WINE performance blows away any of the RH's that I've seen. * Graphics. What more can I say - great overall system performance coupled with a great NVidia graphics card, self-compiled NVidia drivers; enough to make a geek wet his pants. CUBE flies, any games fly, desktops are clean, crisp and basically just fly... * Networking et. al. is much more responsive and faster - NFS imports/exports - Samba (mentioned before) - ftp, telnet, vnc - more responsive. * KDE 3.1 is killer - too bad the KDE 3.1 on RedHat 9 is still chopped/hacked to death by the RH team - hence it sucks. Gnome sucks on both platforms and that's sad because it used to be a great WM/Desktop, but the Gnome team has been "out with the fairies" for the past 8 months and I don't think they're coming back any time soon. * VMWare performance is by far faster and less of a burden on the system than it was under RH 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 and 8.0.92 - dunno if it's because of the advanced kernel version, or what - but it's nice to have a bit more response running XP under linux et. al. * RH is still easier to compile programs under, but I'm not doing that much anymore with the amount of RPM's that are created - by TexStar or by the community at large... * Porn viewing is quicker (did I put that in there?) Joking! * POP/IMAP server functionality and network performance are phenomenal. (Using SENDMAIL, FETCHMAIL, PROCMAIL - wows me to no end) I'm not swaying from my path now - I'm rather happy with the results of the past two months and am going to pursue this course; I'm considering using MDK for custom-built servers when required as the network performance and Samba performance exceed what I initially expected. Now that I know how to GET RID OF POSTFIX and use SENDMAIL instead, I don't forsee any problems with that in a large scale environment. Although I haven't played around with RAID in MDK, I don't foresee any problems in that respect - and with the amount of file system choices, I'm happy I don't have to see out custom made mods to have a different file system - RH is very strict on what they issue for standard file systems. I used to whinge about the file system layout - putting things in the /usr/X11R6 subdirs never seemed good for me - but ya know, the more I screw around with it, the better I like the idea - now I know where my alternative wm's are located without having a hugely cluttered up /usr/share. That's my ramble for today - AND IT'S NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE. Cheers! -- Wed Apr 2 07:00:00 EST 2003 07:00:00 up 11 days, 18:47, 3 users, load average: 0.23, 0.16, 0.10 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did for a living. "Tim, you be first," she said. "What does your mother do all day?" Tim stood up and proudly said, "She's a doctor." "That's wonderful. How about you, Amie?" Amie shyly stood up, scuffed her feet and said, "My father is a mailman." "Thank you, Amie," said the teacher. "What about your father, Billy?" Billy proudly stood up and announced, "My daddy plays piano in a whorehouse." The teacher was aghast and promptly changed the subject to geography. Later that day she went to Billy's house and rang the bell. Billy's father answered the door. The teacher explained what his son had said and demanded an explanation. Billy's father replied, "Well, I'm really an attorney. But how do you explain a thing like that to a seven-year-old child?"
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