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Is Ubuntu Getting Slower?
An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has a new article where they provide Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10 benchmarks and had ran many tests. In that article, when using an Intel notebook they witness major slowdowns in different areas and ask the question, Is Ubuntu getting slower? From the article: 'A number of significant kernel changes had went on between these Ubuntu Linux releases including the Completely Fair Scheduler, the SLUB allocator, tickless kernel support, etc. We had also repeated many of these tests to confirm we were not experiencing a performance fluke or other issue (even though the Phoronix Test Suite carries out each test in a completely automated and repeatable fashion) but nothing had changed. Ubuntu 7.04 was certainly the Feisty Fawn for performance, but based upon these results perhaps it would be better to call Ubuntu 7.10 the Gooey Gibbon, 8.04 the Hungover Heron, and 8.10 the Idling Ibex.'"
He would have been able to finish, had Ubuntu not been so slow that he was never able to finish his papers and turn them in on time.
See, there's this thing called an analogy. It's kinda like a car...
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
that's OK, I'm sure the next version, Moronic Monicker, is going to be a LOT faster.
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
Real men don't upgrade their OS for exactly this reason. In fact, we don't even use OSes. To get maximum performance we write all operations directly to RAM in machine code, while the machine is running, using a needle and a car battery.
How many geeks have heard such phrases: " "That's quick" was the phrase my girlfriend after..."
Alas.
"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
Indeed, it is common knowledge amoungst Real Programmers that you can run an arbitrarily large number of instructions per clock, allowing you to introduce entirely new functionality with zero performance hit. You just need to write everything in asssembler and have the right enchanted oils to annoint the heat sinks. By such a scheme CowboyNeal famously calculated the highest possible prime and now lives forever in a magic castle full of unicorns which shit rainbows.
(Hey, he used an absolute, I'm entitled to extrapolate it to its logical implications.)
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
Analogies are like matchbox cars full of chocolates... you never know how much spillover chinese paint you're going to get.
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
"Slackware" -- an African word, meaning "Gentoo is too hard for me".
An analogy is a simile, metaphorically speaking.
Eschew Obfuscation
No - it's Yoruba for "Come back after the rainy season - it'll probably have compiled by then, but if not, there'll be plenty of dried wilderbeest to snack on."
One swallow does not a fellatrix make
As a Windows fanboy, .NET consultant I make more then 700 USD/day :)
I drive a nice car, decline sex to desperate women who compliment me endlessly each weekend, while I'm up egostroking and renewing my knowledge and try to make more monnies instead.
I used to be a Linux fanboy, I watched porn, had long hair and boy, I was hot on the internet. I would be up all night *trying* to get the damn thing running, without getting paid.
I think that's a rhetorical tautology.
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
"Linux"--the Finnish word for "Many confusing forks"
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
So the soul-removal procedure went well, I see.
You're doing it wrong.
That's what she said.
In which orifice?
The disappearing pencil trick. Let me show you it.
FYI, actually having sex is usually more fun than declining it.
See Ubuntu bug #1 for your answer.
CheShA: Manchester Breakcore / Drill and Bass Yes I'm a s
So adding features does not have performace implications provided those new features are never used. Great.
Would you make us a list of software in the development of which you've been involved, so that we can avoid it?
"This may come as a revelation, but Linux is about choice."
But only if you choose correctly.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
The user's, of course
-- dnl