[Nottingham] The quickest distro in NLUG

[Cam]

Martin

> For my thoughts, I think this is likely more a question of which distro
> is smallest/leanest that still gets the job done.

I think you'll see a much bigger performance difference for things being 
configured properly. Recent hardware like SATA disks and graphics cards 
can run slowly in compatability modes or can run a lot faster when 
driven properly. I have seen this with my laptop (SATA disk and radeon 
x300 graphics). Running bleeding edge Fedora test code the performance 
was first low, then went up and down with software upgrades (it's up 
currently :)

Also things like working suspend improve the quality of life. Start work 
in seconds instead of waiting a minute or so for boot - that's a good 
performance boost.


-Cam

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camilo at mesias.co.uk                                                 <--