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When I tried Yoper, it was noticably faster in the real world by a significant amount. I'm trying to get the same performance with Ubuntu. Prime 95 is just a tool to help gauge the progress. Anyway, even now my machine is blazing fast with a mobile Athlon XP running at 2.5GHz on nForce2 mobo (w/nvidia integrated graphics). It's almost as fast as the Windows XP I have running on Athlon 64 3200+. Soon I might use the Linux as my main machine, and use Windows only for gaming.
You could run a numer of them individually but i think that i have seen a sourceforge project that does it all in one package, that is why i recommend searching sourceforge.
Besides, i just do security scans and network scanners so i have no idea which the best performance testers are.
I have no idea why anyone would care unless they are evaluating systems either.
Wow, I almost feel guilty for all this. 😛
Real world benefits of custom kernels are typically not there. Newbies don't realize it, but that's ok. It gives them experience tracking down problems. It does make helping them out a bit more difficult though.
The customizations I make usually involve putting drivers into the kernel instead of as modules (I hate modules, which Nothinman might flame me for 😉).
The real world benefits of customizing most software to your specific CPU type just aren't there for most programs, encryption being an exception. There are a number of problems with it though. Compiling the same code for i686 instead of i386 might pop up a bug in either the compiler chain or the code itself. Finding tand fixing the bug is a good thing, unless you can't/won't fix it.
Ramble ramble ramble.
Real world benefits of custom kernels are typically not there. Newbies don't realize it, but that's ok. It gives them experience tracking down problems. It does make helping them out a bit more difficult though.
The customizations I make usually involve putting drivers into the kernel instead of as modules (I hate modules, which Nothinman might flame me for 😉).
The real world benefits of customizing most software to your specific CPU type just aren't there for most programs, encryption being an exception. There are a number of problems with it though. Compiling the same code for i686 instead of i386 might pop up a bug in either the compiler chain or the code itself. Finding tand fixing the bug is a good thing, unless you can't/won't fix it.
Ramble ramble ramble.
Nothinman
Elite Member
I have no idea what a yoper is.
But it's artificial and irrelevant, most speed issues on a desktop machine are either obvious like disk speed or interactivity related, like having xmms skip when switching desktops. But Prime95 just seems to exercise the CPU while looking for prime numbers, so the numbers should be very similar unless you have other things running and taking CPU cycles away from Prime95.
Even so most distributions contain kernel packages for each CPU type.
Or, like I saw on lkml today with regards to Linux 2.6.9 and gcc 3.3.5, compiling with certain compilers might just cause the compiler to crash. Obviously if the compiler crashes that's a bug in the compiler, but who knows if other versions of the compiler might not crash but still emit bad assembly code and cause the compile to look like it worked but crash oddly after you boot it up.
True, I guess I'm spoiled in that I don't have to drive in rush hour traffic and the roads I do drive on regularly are pretty rural.
YALD (Yet Another Linux Distribution).
Even so most distributions contain kernel packages for each CPU type.[/quote]
Yep, and that's not a big deal IMO.
That's pretty much what I meant. I just woke up though, so a good example beats my crappy explanation. 😉
Yeah, I don't have that problem much these days, but it used to be a big concern.
I have a serious question - did anyone encounter problems trying to share files with windows XP on a network ? In Ubuntu, the gnome file browser shows the "windows network" icon, but when I click on it, sometimes (actually most of the time) it displays an empty directory. Occasionaly it does work, and displays the "MSHome" workgroup which then leads to the Windows machine and the shared documentes folder. I've heard others have also encountered this problem, but I'm not sure if there is any fix for it. Any ideas ? (right now I'm transferring files on the network using FTP).
Normally i do the same, i have been using LiSA for a while just to help test out a new version and it works pretty great, the integration with Konqueror and KDE printing services makes for easy transition from Win machines to *nix.
Normally KDE is not something i would run though, even though it IS a good WM it is more than i need.
But for an easy transition from win to *nix it is great.
HKSturboKID
Golden Member
Did a install of Ubuntu last night and it was very easy.
yes it is easy to mount an ntfs partition on ubuntu so you can access them. However, you need to read the wiki for it at ubuntus website. i had this issue. also, if you use the irc client, go to freenode, then enter channel #ubuntu you will get all kinds of help in there. Ask a person named thoreaputic i think is his name. he can help...
k thx
I also was reading about SimplyMEPIS so I may try this too 😉
(just got a new 120g hd from HotDeals forum 😀 )
articles:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wik...untMSWindowsPartitions
http://www.geocities.com/epark...ition-share-HOWTO.html
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/CantPlayMP3s
http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi...BMIT=Display&id=48
I also was reading about SimplyMEPIS so I may try this too 😉
(just got a new 120g hd from HotDeals forum 😀 )
articles:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wik...untMSWindowsPartitions
http://www.geocities.com/epark...ition-share-HOWTO.html
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/CantPlayMP3s
http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi...BMIT=Display&id=48
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