On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Lance A. Brown wrote: > From what I've been reading, the 2.6 kernel is a major win in desktop > performance. It really is *that* much faster than 2.4!
I was chatting with someone that has an @redhat.com email address and he was saying that there was a lot more collaboration between the glibc & kernel components this time which accounts for more performance gains than the press has been giving credit for. The libs are all supposed to be prelinked now. Mozilla, OOo, Gnome & KDE all have significant performance gains of their own on top of the kernel & glibc improvements. So the gains are really compounded across multiple key components. It's worth pointing out that I was using KDE, not Gnome. Gnome is the default desktop so I can't really comment on how much difference there might be for the more typical FC2 user. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
