Vote On A Distribution For Linux Benchmarking

[TheBlackCat]

In fact with all the testing you do I would imagine you wold have to do a lot of clean installs to keep the data rational.

Or just use live images.

[chrisb]

The poll mentions Debian Sid, not Debian Stable, not slow moving, not ultra-stable. How is the fact that you can download the entire repository of Debian as ISOs relevant? What besides a different desktop shell (and in the future Mir/XMir) is so relevant that you can't consider Ubuntu to be a Debian Sid (or Testing, in the case of LTS versions) respin?

Respins don't usually change so much stuff. In Ubuntu the kernel is different and there are package differences: http://lwn.net/Articles/416667/

Ubuntu gets most of its software from Debian (89%), and only 7% are new packages coming from other upstream projects (the remaining 4% are unknown, they are newer upstream releases of software available in Debian but he was not able to find out whether the Debian packaging had been reused or not). From all the packages imported from Debian, 17% have Ubuntu-specific changes. The reasons for those changes are varied: bugfixes, integration with Launchpad/Ubuntu One/etc., or toolchain changes. The above figures are based on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) while excluding many Ubuntu-specific packages (language-pack-*, language-support-*, kde-l10n-*, *ubuntu*, *launchpad*)....

There are 3 channels that Ubuntu uses to push changes to Debian: they file bug reports (between 250 to 400 during each Ubuntu release cycle), they interact directly with Debian maintainers (often the case when there's a maintenance team), or they do nothing and hope that the Debian maintainer will pick up the patch directly from the Debian Package Tracking System (it relays information provided by patches.ubuntu.com).

It depends how you define respin. Is CentOS a respin of Red Hat? Is Suse a respin of Slackware?

[LinuxGamer]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Netbook_Edition

GNOME 3.0 in April 2009 Unity June 9, 2010 hmm

[LinuxGamer]

for all of you who use Ubuntu need to read this Ubuntu is a Love toy for the NSA

?it has raised a number of privacy concerns in the community and, looking over Ubuntu's legal notice about privacy does not provide any reassurance. The notice informs us Canonical reserves the right to share our keystrokes, search terms and IP address with a number of third parties, including Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and the BBC. This feature is enabled by default, but can be turned off through the distribution's settings panel.?

[TheBlackCat]

Is CentOS a respin of Red Hat?

Yes.

Is Suse a respin of Slackware?

Not in the last 18 years, no.

[GreatEmerald]

Seriously people, stop responding to spambots. It's getting really silly.

[TheBlackCat]

Seriously people, stop responding to spambots. It's getting really silly.

If you are referring to esmaeilhamdy, esmaeilhamdy is the spambot. Its post is an exact copy-and-paste of one of mine, and the original post it is quoting doesn't contain any of those links.

It seems the spambots are copying-and-pasting existing posts as their own, inserting a quote of a second post, then inserting links into the quote to make it seem that someone else is the spambot.

[Fnux]

Hi,

for all of you who use Ubuntu need to read this Ubuntu is a Love toy for the NSA
?it has raised a number of privacy concerns in the community and, looking over Ubuntu's legal notice about privacy does not provide any reassurance. The notice informs us Canonical reserves the right to share our keystrokes, search terms and IP address with a number of third parties, including Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and the BBC. This feature is enabled by default, but can be turned off through the distribution's settings panel.?

Because you think other distros don't have "back doors"? LoL!

Ask to Linus Torwlads who's paying him as well as to many other main distro developpers!

[GreatEmerald]

If you are referring to esmaeilhamdy, esmaeilhamdy is the spambot. Its post is an exact copy-and-paste of one of mine, and the original post it is quoting doesn't contain any of those links.

It seems the spambots are copying-and-pasting existing posts as their own, inserting a quote of a second post, then inserting links into the quote to make it seem that someone else is the spambot.

Ooh, that's clever.

[SilverH]

The best would be testing the big ones, which another distros are based in like Arch, Debian, Slackware etc. (Linux Distros Map)

But from this list it must be MANJARO Linux, imo.