Hi Andreas, I realise that you of course are full of yoper propaganda, and rightly so given your position with respect to that distro :-) That aside, I too would like to know the methodoly behind said tests. IE: Things like buffer and cache reads, and possibly even user memory measurements, are well known as theoretical benchmarks, and, while they provide interesting trivia, quite often have no relevance to the real world. Stuff like 'How many megabytes per second can I pull off of a yoper based NFS server', or 'how many webpages per second does this fedora-based version of apache serve', stuff like that, are 'real world' examples and are more useful and will be much more accepted. While I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the figures that were provided, I feel they may create more controversy than good (ie: will leave people arguing pointlessly about yoper, etc, etc rather than winning anyone over to your cause). Also, while boot time *is* a useful and valid statistic, the question must be asked - booting what? I'm pretty sure I could write a custom mini-distribution with a kernel, bash and nothing else which would boot faster than any of the ones listed :-) Contrived example I know, but it illustrates my point. Sure the benchmark was done by a member of your community and hence you had no control over it, but reformatting it and posting it in the URL it was on leads people to believe that yoper ltd/incorporated/TM/whatever is the source of these benchmarks and hence you yourself will suffer any criticism of them. Be wary, the religious distro wars are afoot :-) Andreas Girardet wrote:
Hello fellow NZLinuxers
Here a post of the results of the comparison between 23 distros on speed and many more categories.
http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?showtopic=953
Here a little ranking
http://www.yoper.com/comparison/desktopcomparison.html
Hope you'll enjoy it.
Cheers
Andreas
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