On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:18, Jeff Waugh wrote: > If you would like a lengthy description of why Gentoo and friends (LFS, etc) > are not viewed favourably by bigots like me (FOSS software contributors), > and why I'm more than willing to encourage people to use other systems, > you're welcome to ask. It is more than just numbats and ideology. :-)
Hmm, nice dodge on the numbats there Jeff. I have two questions. 1) How can you claim that Gentoo contributors are not also FOSS (I've dropped your redundant software :P) contributors? 2) Why is it that you (personally, as I don't think you can speak for the entire FOSS community) view Gentoo so unfavourably that it is the one distribution you are always so forward about calling backwards? Just to throw some more useless numbers around, here are the results of running md5sum over the same directory (/boot) with the only two distrubtions I have installed on the machine. Note 1: This is the only test I could think to run at about 2am midweek after I first read the post regarding benchmarking distributions. Note 2: I run Gentoo for lots of reasons, "speed gains" not being one of them. (People truely interested in speed gains would probably devise their own benchmarks for each package they emerge and try re-emerging them with different compile flags. If this is what these people enjoy doing, I'm not going to pick on them because they aren't doing more to contribute to FOSS...) ------------------------- Gentoo ------------------------------- #time md5sum * %> /dev/null real 0m0.231s user 0m0.170s sys 0m0.050s #time md5sum * &> /dev/null real 0m0.229s user 0m0.160s sys 0m0.070s #time md5sum * &> /dev/null real 0m0.230s user 0m0.150s sys 0m0.080s # time md5sum * &> /dev/null real 0m0.230s user 0m0.170s sys 0m0.060s ---------------------------- Gentoo ----------------------------- ---------------------------- Redhat 7.2 ----------------------------- # time md5sum * &> /dev/null real 0m0.620s user 0m0.553s sys 0m0.068s # time md5sum * &> /dev/null real 0m0.622s user 0m0.563s sys 0m0.061s # time md5sum * &> /dev/null real 0m0.636s user 0m0.553s sys 0m0.066s # time md5sum * &> /dev/null real 0m0.619s user 0m0.525s sys 0m0.094s ---------------------------- Redhat 7.2 ----------------------------- Cheers, Malcolm V. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
