[Foresight-distro] Re: The md5sum for Foresight Linux Disc 1 and 2

[Heikki Pesonen]

On 1/19/07, Paul Scott-Wilson <pscott at foresightlinux.org> wrote:

> That is a rather strange microbenchmark which isn't really showing much
> about performance. It depends on to many things like how many files are in
> the filesystem, the filesystem types and how long the system has been on.


The comparison was mostly between Suse and Ubuntu and bouth use the same
ext3 (SLED10 reiserfs). Both installation were quite new.


> For example if you run it twice the second time it'll complete in a matter
> of seconds.


I noticed that and I did the test many times, meanwhile restarting the
computer. I did not mind using stopwatch (it is gone somewere I could not
find it) but my normal wrist watch was accurate enough in this case.

IMHO the only real measure of a desktop system is to use it.


Yeas, to use the hard disk, the filesystem and the  "small" programs doing
the routine tasks as for ex. to find something  ...

If you perceive it to be running faster thats all that matters.


My WindowsXP in the same computer were I have the three Linuxes runs faster
than the Linuxes. That's how I percieve it :}

In Linux Format Christmas 2006 Andy Hudson evaluates Fedora Core 6 vs Ubuntu
6,10 giving

By the way, while trying to install Ubuntu 10.2 to my sons computer I felt
in trouble. Probably the reason was an old displaycard nVidia NV17 [GeForce4
MX440] (rev a3). So I installed Suse 10.2 working well. There is free space
in my "own" computer (my sons computer is actually my also), so I will try
Foresight soon.