Arch Linux Install Media Updated For July 2012

[F i L]

I would also love to see Arch makes it's way into the Phoronix distro benchmarks, as I'm interested in knowing the difference between Arch and other Distros. Everyone claims Arch "just feels faster", and indeed this has been my experience, but it would be nice to have some actual statistics (and please refrain from telling me to "do it myself").

If Arch is ever considered, just choose a "common ground" DE (such as Gnome Shell) and set up a reasonably comparable systems. There are official repos for Catalyst drivers, etc.

[randomizer]

I disagree. Are you an Arch user?

On and off. It's one of my favourites.

I think that the benchmark is really interesting, as it reflects the choices and performances of distro's packets, flags, ./configure options etc...

But my point is that you don't have a benchmark unless you state every single configuration option you've set, every service you've started and precisely what version of every package you've installed. With Ubuntu, Fedora, etc, you can find these easily by just checking the packages and config files on the Live CD. With Arch these are all in constant flux, so your charts are out of date before it is published.

Yes, you could benchmark what is on the snapshot ISO and that would provide you with a standard that can be compared to. However, the ISO has absolutely nothing on it, so you'd have to install all of those in-flux dependencies before you can even run the tests.

[babali]

Michael benchmarks standard, OOTB configurations except where stated. There is no standard configuration for Arch... well, unless you are only interested in benchmarking the terminal emulator.

I disagree. Are you an Arch user?

I think that the benchmark is really interesting, as it reflects the choices and performances of distro's packets, flags, ./configure options etc...
In the other hand, I'm absolutely not interested into benchmarking KDE, Gnome, or various aspect of the desktop when compositing is enabled/disabled, as I don't use them.

[randomizer]

By the way, you should include Archlinux in your benchmark vs Fedora vs Ubuntu

Michael benchmarks standard, OOTB configurations except where stated. There is no standard configuration for Arch... well, unless you are only interested in benchmarking the terminal emulator.

[babali]

By the way, you should include Archlinux in your benchmark vs Fedora vs Ubuntu

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Arch Linux Install Media Updated For July 2012

For those that haven't heard yet, the Arch Linux 2012.07.15 install media is available as a major installer update for this popular rolling-release Linux distribution...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE0NTE