Vote On A Distribution For Linux Benchmarking

[TheBlackCat]

Canonical is a company that does what he thinks is best, we should thank every company that invests in Linux instead of criticizing.

That is one of the things people are criticizing: canonical invests very little in Linux.

[Charlie68]

That is one of the things people are criticizing: canonical invests very little in Linux.

...little or as much does not matter, points of view, remember what it was before the arrival of Ubuntu Linux, unfortunately we forget in a hurry. Canonical will also have some merit it, otherwise you are not goals.

[liam]

...little or as much does not matter, points of view, remember what it was before the arrival of Ubuntu Linux, unfortunately we forget in a hurry. Canonical will also have some merit it, otherwise you are not goals.

Investment is important b/c, even now, linux is lagging in some techincal areas. Specifically it's scheduler, alsa, and graphics, to name the ones that come to mind immediately.
Canonical has largely piggy-backed, cherry-picked, and invested in advertisment (along with stringing along a naive userbase) to get where they are.
IOW, if it had been canonical alone developing linux since 2004, they'd be a forgotten desktop now.

My suggestion is to outline what features linux still needs, determine acceptance criteria, and wait keep an eye on things (along with developing towards that end, if you can).
My hope lies with Molnar, Gleixner, and Rostedt to get Linus' branch as RT as possible. That will give Linux a huge technical legup over every other general purpose OS. In particular it should result in a more reliable kernel (under specified conditions).

[verde]

Of course, there is absolutely no way anyone could possibly legitimately like Fedora over Ubuntu. The only logical conclusion is that it must be sock puppets. Child sock puppets at that, since there is no way any adult could possibly like Fedora over Ubuntu.

bla bla bla, there is absolutely no way the known statistics (distros share) legitimately change in a poll. You can like whatever you want but there is the "one person-one vote" rule and the Ubuntu "people" are more than Fedora "people" and the Fedora "people" are more than the Manjaro "people".

So the poll is not legitimate because statistics dont lie but they can be cheated.

Look at the poll now. does it reflect the real statistical numbers?
How do you explain the Fedora staying behind after a couple of days in front of Ubunu?

Think...

[Ramiliez]

My hope lies with Molnar, Gleixner, and Rostedt to get Linus' branch as RT as possible. That will give Linux a huge technical legup over every other general purpose OS. In particular it should result in a more reliable kernel (under specified conditions).

Whats wrong with CFQ?

[Adarion]

Gentoo, of course.

Other than that it boils down mainly to the versions of the same engines that all of them use (kernel, mesa, X,...), then the available DEs and of course configuration of things, which is probably a part where one can find most differences. OpenSuSE might be worth a go since they support a lot of DEs "out of the box".

[blackout23]

Whats wrong with CFQ?

You might want to read a bit about the BFS (Brain Fuck Scheduler) from Con Kolivas. It should answer your questions.

http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/bfs-faq.txt

It doesn't seem to be ideal for gaming and hardware intensive workloads. The Arch Linux Wiki even mentions using the Linux-CK kernel and run games with SCHED_ISO policy through "schedtool -I -e %command%" to get better performance and lower latency.

http://ck.wikia.com/wiki/SD

Also points out problems with current scheduler.

[Maudit]

we should thank every company that invests in Linux instead of criticizing.

But also... no.

If you do not agree with what he does Canonical just do not use it, but without hate, hate is stupid!

Stupid is who is acritical and passive.
Canonical draws on an impressive wealth of resources that are not his property, but the result of battles, obstinacy, hundreds of thousands of man hours spent by so many people in front of a monitor in pursuit of an ideal, an ethical or just personal glory.
So ... no, they can not do "whatever they want." Not without receiving criticism or praise depending on the case. And this is normal, not "stupid."

[Charlie68]

But also... no.



Stupid is who is acritical and passive.
Canonical draws on an impressive wealth of resources that are not his property, but the result of battles, obstinacy, hundreds of thousands of man hours spent by so many people in front of a monitor in pursuit of an ideal, an ethical or just personal glory.
So ... no, they can not do "whatever they want." Not without receiving criticism or praise depending on the case. And this is normal, not "stupid."

These words are the death of free software, if you decide to develop open source software do not complain when others use it, this is the philosophy of free software! Otherwise it is pure hypocrisy! Ubuntu does what all distributions.

[Maudit]

These words are the death of free software, if you decide to develop open source software do not complain when others use it, this is the philosophy of free software!.

“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. With these freedoms, the users (both individually and collectively) control the program and what it does for them.
When users don't control the program, the program controls the users. The developer controls the program, and through it controls the users. This nonfree or “proprietary” program is therefore an instrument of unjust power.
Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

You perception of "free software", without critical thinking, is much closer to "free beer" than "free speech".

Since you want to teach me something about "Free Software", and the prohibition to criticize:

Richard Stallman Spyware on Ubuntu using Amazon 2013.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXnfa0H30L4

Do you know who is Richard Stallman? Or you only know your God "Mark"?