Re: [Nolug] um... i switched to debian

From: Petri Laihonen <pietu_at_weblizards.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 00:09:02 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <3921.68.14.52.165.1097122142.squirrel@68.14.52.165>

Has anyone sought up or stumbled upon any sites with "reliable" speed
tests between the distros in regular every day use?

P

> There. I said it.
>
> I have no hard feelings towards Gentoo and I still consider a pretty
> good distro for those who like total control on dependencies. But the
> reason why I chose to switch to debian was speed. I suspect that using
> -O3 as a gcc optimization for the entire system is not the best option.
> It has been suggested that -O2 is better. Indeed, I did some research
> and that seems to be the case. This time around, however, I did not want
> to wait a week to get a system ready. So I installed Debian on a spare
> drive and did a test spin for two days. It was great. All the
> applications ran faster than on my Gentoo system. Yesterday I wiped
> Gentoo and reinstalled Debian on the main drive.
> Debian's default Gnome desktop is excellent.
>
> I expect to stay with Debian for a long while. I won't particularly miss
> Gentoo and I suspect that the compiling issues will become more apparent
> as more people start to use it. There needs to be a lot more testing
> done about compiler options, but for the time being, I want my computer
> to work quickly.
>
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