Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (16 Viewers)
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Edit: Fellas which KDE distro would you say is the fastest? I really love Kubuntu but performance wise it's really slow..
Edit2: Besides Gentoo Martin.
Edit2: Besides Gentoo Martin.
erm what?
Lookit, it is not true that one distro is designed to be "faster" than another. All of them are trying to be as fast as they possibly can. Both Ubuntu and Fedora use the very latest gcc to compile all the packages, because the newest compilers are the fastest. They both have projects to replace sysv to get faster booting. Speed is big everywhere.
If it's the case that one feels slow and the other one doesn't then that's a lot more likely to be caused by some anomaly on your system. For instance if your desktop freezes periodically it's probably your hardware or kernel.
The difference between Fedora and Ubuntu is a lot deeper than speed. Fedora is the like the "research distro" for Redhat. First they try it out on Fedora and once it becomes stable, they put it into Redhat. Which is why Fedora has so much cutting edge stuff, they were the first to adopt gcc4, to include eclipse built with gcj, to bundle mono and so on. Fedora/Redhat has lots of involvement in these projects, they contribute lots of patches to gcc and other projects, they help drive linux forward technologically.
Ubuntu has a different focus, it's supposed to be newbie friendly. And also modern, very much unlike Debian. But they work in the name of the users, not technology itself. Of course they still benefit from all the work that goes into other distros and ends up in the kernel, in kde, in gnome etc, but they don't contribute to this much, they mostly use it.
As for Gentoo, flexibility. Gentoo has a reputation for attracting noobs who think that because you compile the system yourself, it's going to be a lot faster. In reality the difference, if there is any, is negligible. But Gentoo instead is very flexible, allows you to experiment with unstable packages very easily, and a lot of other things. That's the users it attracts most of, those who want a lot of control over their system. When I say flexible that also means you can run Gentoo on more hardware (xbox, ipod, whatever) than almost any other distro (because it's built from source).
FYI I'm playing Quake 3, Doom 4, Simcity 3000 and Postal 2 tdown in Linux! :eyebrows:
Yeah it's not that exciting, but it's progress nonetheless
Now that's the kind of thing I like to hear
tdown in Linux! :eyebrows:Yeah it's not that exciting, but it's progress nonetheless
Now that's the kind of thing I like to hear
Frozen Bubble rules
I wasn't compairing Ubuntu to Fedora, I've used Fedora for a few hours only and didn't like it, but from all of the distros I've tried Ubuntu was the slowest.
Dreamlinux, Mandriva, Suse were all faster and more responsive on my system. Maybe it's all just in my head but that's my experience with it. Still I'm sticking with Ubuntu as it seems to be the easiest for me and I've learned my way around it. I've read it on other sites as well, and the general impression I got is that Ubuntu is slow.
I don't know the technical reasons for it but that's my experience with it. I doubt my hardware has anything to do with it, I had no problems whatsoever with crashes on Linux, unless when experimenting with Beryl.
Like what? Frozen bubbles?
Dreamlinux, Mandriva, Suse were all faster and more responsive on my system. Maybe it's all just in my head but that's my experience with it. Still I'm sticking with Ubuntu as it seems to be the easiest for me and I've learned my way around it. I've read it on other sites as well, and the general impression I got is that Ubuntu is slow.
I don't know the technical reasons for it but that's my experience with it. I doubt my hardware has anything to do with it, I had no problems whatsoever with crashes on Linux, unless when experimenting with Beryl.
Hah! Eat that Vlatko
Ahh, now we're talking! 
The best thing about the old Colonisation is that it fit on one floppy. Now that's a good thing in a small package.
Haha sorry boss
Then again, if you want to play Doom 4 just turn off all the lights in your house and you're all set
In other news, Half-Life 3 has just been released too:
The best thing about the old Colonisation is that it fit on one floppy. Now that's a good thing in a small package.
Haha sorry boss
Then again, if you want to play Doom 4 just turn off all the lights in your house and you're all set
In other news, Half-Life 3 has just been released too:
Ahh, now we're talking!
The best thing about the old Colonisation is that it fit on one floppy. Now that's a good thing in a small package.
The best thing about the old Colonisation is that it fit on one floppy. Now that's a good thing in a small package.
You know I got it working in some emulator (don't recall which one) but it was just too buggy to play. I remember that game vividly though, played it non stop for a week when I bought it.
