[wplug] Redhat 9 Depressing as a first impression

[John]

Hmm,

I think I'll prefer the stock vanilla kernel, although if you are interested
in break neck speed, try gentoo linux, it's built completely from source so
the install takes a while, but when I had it installed on my machine it was
a VERY impressive difference.  Gnome was snappy, everything was compiled and
run with at least -03 compiler options, and I do believe it was gcc 3.x with
-mcpu pentium3 optimizations as well.  Not sure how much more you could
squeeze but I would say X/gnome went from console to ready in about 15
seconds.

If you used something like fluxbox as a windowmanager it was really
impressive time of about 5/6 seconds.

Gentoo Linux: http://www.gentoo.org the main reason I moved away from it is
the BSD style setup of the init scripts, and /dev/fs, I can't stand /dev/fs,
probably from lack of use more than anything but when I have to spend 4
hours to get my USB mouse to work.. Blah..

- John

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From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
David Gerard Matthews
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 7:33 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Redhat 9 Depressing as a first impression


You might want to try the kernel at www-ccrma.stanford.edu.  I've been 
using it on an RH8 box (should also work on 9m judging by posts to the 
Planet CCRMA list.)  It's got the low-latency and pre-emption patches 
compiled and seems to be pretty fast and stable.
By way of a little explanation, Planet CCRMA is a series of packages 
for RH 7-8 put together by the Stanford Center for Computing Research 
in Music  and Acoustics.  They've got Debian's famed apt-get working on 
Red Hat, so it's a great way to grab packages even if you don't care 
about the multimedia focus of the projects.
-dgm

On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 05:06  PM, John Strange wrote:

> Oh my,
>
> Running on a dual P3 1g with 1G ram, it's VERY sluggish, disk access 
> time for an adaptech 7899 controller is VERY poor.  I tried rebuilding 
> the redhat kernel that came with it until I finally gave up after the 
> 12th module bombing out on the compile.
>
> The kernel that came with Redhat 9 spews all kind of errors during 
> compile time, it's not very pretty.
>
> Building stock kernel now in hopes of performance increase, so beware
> if
> you are on a slow connection during install, it looks as if it needs a
> lot of work out the box.
>
>  - John
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