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Gentoo is Fast on New G5s
Durin_Deathless writes "According to a thread on the Gentoo/PPC forums, some Gentoo users have installed Gentoo on their new G5s without any problems whatsoever. Benchmarks are extraordinary: compiling kde on a G5 running at half speed takes 15 minutes, while it takes one hour on the fastest P4 available. Gentoo/PowerPC lead, Pieter Van den Abeele, reported that the machine currently runs at half speed due to fan controlling hardware not yet supported. The Gentoo team will post benchmarks, and will update installation instructions as soon as possible. There is some question as to what exactly was compiled, as the times seem impossibly fast even on the P4."
G5 is lots faster than P4? This is so obvious to even the most clueless home computer user! I mean, come on, how can a P4 possibly compete with a G5? The G5 is clearly 1 ahead!
Can slashdot please tell us something that's not common knowledge? I mean geez, next the'll be like: Saddam Masterminded 9/11. Well no duh!
You can't even download all the KDE packages in 15 minutes.
You can if you download all the languages.
a gentoo user is claiming incomprehensible performance boosts due to foo! film at eleven!
"You only compile Mozilla once."
You're not a Gentoo user, are you?
I installed 64 bit HP/UX on my Pentium 4. It only took me one HP/UX CD and a dab of epoxy but it installed nicely on the computer. I am sure someone could do the same with a G5 and a 64bit AMD distro, although a Mac person would probably do a much nicer job since they are more artistic. They'd probably frame and mat it in a nice shadow box with some pretty flowers or colored macaronis.
'Same speed C but faster'
Your comment reminded me of this bash.cx quote.
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fastb - lol apple have the g5 out. its must be slower than the p4 because they have so many more revisions to get through! next up is h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 then i1, i2... up to p1, p2, p3, p4! LOL!
kev[0] -I just read that three times and I think I'm dumber for it.
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I mean, is that or is that not the vaguest bloody headline you've ever read?
"Linux is fast on a new fast computer"
I mean, come on...
not only does the disk have to spin on average 1/2 way around to get the head positioned over the file proper, but it needs to do this potentially multiple times beforehand while searching through inodes just to locate the file!
*gag*
Don't worry. Your benchmarks are as useless as ours.
You clueless dolt! The P4 is faster than the G5. P comes after G, and is clearly 9 letters ahead!
He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
Actually, the real test will come when somebody measures how fast this thing can copy a 17 megabyte file from one folder to another.
yeah -- they didn't find aliens either.