[LUNI] What distro are you using?

Kristian Erik Hermansen kristian.hermansen at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 11:19:39 CST 2008


On Feb 18, 2008 9:30 AM, William Scott Lockwood III
<scott at cashnetusa.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu? The whole reason to run Gentoo seems to be trying to squeeze
> extra performance out of the hardware, which is an argument I've never
> bought. What's been your experience?

Gentoo is faster, but not by a huge amount :-)  It's enough to make a
difference if you run a server, but most likely not for a desktop.  I
hear figures around < 10% advantage...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
--
"It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an
intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing
gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and
difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious
watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or
failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to
Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878


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