except that the DE has an influence. I tried it a few years ago. Everything based qt (kde, integrity) was a little bit faster than everything based gtk (gnome, xfce)
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Originally posted by energyman View Postexcept that the DE has an influence. I tried it a few years ago. Everything based qt (kde, integrity) was a little bit faster than everything based gtk (gnome, xfce)
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Originally posted by energyman View PostI don't have the numbers anymore, but:
glxgears was faster
ut2003 was faster
vegastrike was faster
with kde or integrity.
Not much, we are talking 2-3fps. But that in all situations.
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back then pulseaudio didn't even exist. And I will never use a sounddaemon. I hate them so much.
about memory:
I really don't think that gnome has changed for the better - because a complete rewrite would be necessary.
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Originally posted by energyman View Postback then pulseaudio didn't even exist. And I will never use a sounddaemon. I hate them so much.
about memory:
I really don't think that gnome has changed for the better - because a complete rewrite would be necessary.
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Originally posted by energyman View Postlook at the date. 2006. Was anybody using tracker or beagle back then? did pulseaudio even exist?
Come on, you're a gentoo user, you know that very wellLast edited by Apopas; 02 August 2009, 03:27 PM.
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Phoronix probably uses Ubuntu for hardware benchmarking for a very good reason - they had to choose one. If they started to choose more, Phoronix might lose focus.
I am happy as I hope they will also stick with it. That way one can make comparisons over time. No, I have never run Ubuntu myself.
And, if they compare an alpha version with a stable? Well, as long as it is clearly stated in the article, I see no bad in that.
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Many servers run at runlevel 3 so the desktop does not even matter. I want to see benchmarks of server performance: nfs, openldap, postgresql, samba.
I want benchmarks with tweaked configurations. Anyone who cares about performance is going to tweak, so benchmarks with default parameters are not very interesting.
I would like to see benchmarks for routing. I want to use el-cheapo hardware for routing and I want to know which is the best kernel to use. I want to see IPv4 performance versus IPv6 performance.
I want to see benchmarks for network cards. I want to know which cards will slurp up a saturated gigabit network without dropping packets.
I would like to see benchmarks for virtualization products. Centos 5 in VMware versus Centos 5 in qemu, for example.
I want to see benchmarks for supported products. I don't care about gentoo or opensolaris or opensuse because they do not have professional support. In my business the only two distributions that matter are RedHat and SuSE. This is not my choice but it is reality.
The desktop is more than fast enough for me already. I don't care if a text box draws 1.4% faster on one distribution than another.
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