Adam Bower wrote:
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:31:31PM +0100, Craig wrote:
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:07:41PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
I tried one of the earlier releases and didn't get the experience it was suggested i would, i left it overnight compiling and got back the next day to find it had really screwed up somewhere in the build process so I was understandably a bit pissed off :)
The early releases were a bit awkward but weren't most distros were like this in their early stages?
Thats true, just I did think it took the piss as their publicity at the time promised lots more than they actually gave me though. What I may do when I find some spare time is do an install of Debian and make it nice and lovely for this box and then benchmark it, then do the same for Redhat, Gentoo Mandrake to see what the benefits in performance of each are as I am especially interested to see if the alleged optimisations actually make any difference with Gentoo as I have heard some people say that the real world benefits will be minimal possibly less than 1 or 2% and in some cases worse than just compiling for 386.
I have some info for this. I just had a conversation with one of our other Directors, who has just put a Gentoo box as his firewall/comms box on a dial-up. He used exactly the same hardware, exactly the same iptables script, the only difference is an optimised Gentoo install replaced a SuSE 7.3 install. His average d/l speed has gone from 4-4.5kps to 10-11 kps.
Cheers, Laurie.