On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 15:49:55 -0500 John Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I am running cooker, and I just merely installed the kernel from > the mandrake rpm on the contrib source. I guess I wanted to try it > because it is supposed to be faster in loading applications such as > mozilla. I guess I'll just have to wait until everything has moved to > the 2.6 kernel permanently. Hmm, I wouldn't go as far as saying that just because you have the latest kernel your apps run faster. It's all about your architecture on your computer, and whether you specified your processor specs in your gcc when both the kernel, libs, and all that goes with Mozilla was compiled. It's not justa matter of upgrading a kernel and noticing a difference. If you are really into performance, and you know what options to use / not to use in gcc, then I suggest Gentoo, this way you can build a whole OS and programs specific to your hardware, which will obviously be faster than per-compiled binaries for an average system. <anti-flame> Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying that Mandrake is slow (or I wouldn't be using it either), but that if it's speed you want, then consider your other options. <emergency-anti-flame> I know there was an article a while back on slashdot supposedly proving that Gentoo isn't faster, but this has been argued till the point where the facts remain that the tests were not run in a fair environment, the systems were not running the same versions of the software tested, and that even the gcc versions used to compile the binaries was different, umong many other points which definitly makea difference. </emergency-anti-flame> </anti-flame> As for your idea of waiting until 2.6 gets used as standard, well I would not hold your breath John. The 2.6 kernel had had a total makeover, different techniques of modules loading / creation / running. It is still way too unstable to consider running a stable system on. It's more for the wanna-be geeks who want to run the latest of the latest, and yes Isay wanna-be because a so-called real geek would compile it himself, LOL, and deinitely not run a pre-compiled beta of the heart of his system ;-) It does supprise me though that Mandrake is including it in at least the betas of the new release. I'm curios to know they intentions for this. > Thanks anyway. Sure, no problem. Btw, if my last post seemed aggressive, it was, but not at you .. just had an irritating day of spam, spam, and more spam, umong a shitty internet connection and so on ;-) .. my appologies for this if I offended you. Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ "...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux"
pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
