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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
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.
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An analogy is a simile, metaphorically speaking.
Eschew Obfuscation
I think that's a rhetorical tautology.
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
So the soul-removal procedure went well, I see.
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.
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