Ok, before you read any further remember that this is NOT accurate, tested or anyhow valid information. Some of this is purely psychological and has got NOTHING to do with real benchmarks.
I've been running 2.4 series with CK [1] patches. I'm unfortunately using somewhat low-end hardware (P200MHz) and hence I really appreciate performance. I switched to linux-2.6.0-test8 only a week ago, so again this isn't really the best source of information.
Anyhow, I'm so far REALLY happy with performance of 2.6.0-test8. Before the switch, I was using 2.4.22-ck1 which was a lot worse performance-wise than my previous kernel,.20-ck6. Didn't switch back just yet because I had compiled in some stuff I needed and it takes a while to compile a new kernel with this hardware.
Linux-2.6.0-test8 has done A LOT better than.22-ck1, and it has seemed even more responsive in normal use (IRC, web surfing, MP3s etc) than.20-ck6 which I was already happy with. Responsiveness shows in switching desktops when browser is doing things, starting things and playing MP3s at the same time.
And yes, as I said in the beginning, most of this is purely psychological and inaccurate. Slower hardware of course benefits more even from smallest performance gains. Then again, I don't believe that 2.6 will be The Thing for serious production enviroments for a while, it's not mature enough yet. But for me -- for desktop use -- great!
[1] http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ (Con Kolivas' kernel patches that aim to a more responsive system)
So this means we will get even more lamers in IRC asking for "Linux version 3". I wonder how they plan to explain moving from Linux 9 to Linux 3, shrug.
Remember also that even though it's a fact that a huge amount of Slashdot users are interested in articles like this, still I'd imagine that a "normal" article with actual information attracts more readers, and therefore causes more traffic and server load. I could be wrong too, but I doubt it.;)
They survived this before, just saying that judging their performance now by this article may not be correct. Subject does matter.
LAN party n 1: An event where all the
{STFU N00b X11ter person}s collect together with massive amounts of energy drinks. The difference between playing at home and playing at LAN party is the smell and ability to actual throw things at your enemies. {IRC} access is restricted to Quakenet and overclockers are demigods.
And now Microsoft will turn it to Open Software so volunteers can start an own fork of it and continue deveploving it... and will win eurovision song contest and soccer world championship. And SCO will be popular again.
Well since everyone else is advocating The Best Light Window Manager(tm) too, here goes:
PWM: http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/
PWM is not actively deveploved anymore, but this is really not that bad thing. There are a lot of sofware projects that should stop for a while and focus on fixing bugs instead of adding new features (BLOAT). Read more from the website if you're interested.
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Ok, before you read any further remember that this is NOT accurate, tested or anyhow valid information. Some of this is purely psychological and has got NOTHING to do with real benchmarks.
.20-ck6. Didn't switch back just yet because I had compiled in some stuff I needed and it takes a while to compile a new kernel with this hardware.
.22-ck1, and it has seemed even more responsive in normal use (IRC, web surfing, MP3s etc) than .20-ck6 which I was already happy with. Responsiveness shows in switching desktops when browser is doing things, starting things and playing MP3s at the same time.
I've been running 2.4 series with CK [1] patches. I'm unfortunately using somewhat low-end hardware (P200MHz) and hence I really appreciate performance. I switched to linux-2.6.0-test8 only a week ago, so again this isn't really the best source of information.
Anyhow, I'm so far REALLY happy with performance of 2.6.0-test8. Before the switch, I was using 2.4.22-ck1 which was a lot worse performance-wise than my previous kernel,
Linux-2.6.0-test8 has done A LOT better than
And yes, as I said in the beginning, most of this is purely psychological and inaccurate. Slower hardware of course benefits more even from smallest performance gains. Then again, I don't believe that 2.6 will be The Thing for serious production enviroments for a while, it's not mature enough yet. But for me -- for desktop use -- great!
[1] http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ (Con Kolivas' kernel patches that aim to a more responsive system)
So this means we will get even more lamers in IRC asking for "Linux version 3". I wonder how they plan to explain moving from Linux 9 to Linux 3, shrug.
(troll? yes ma'am)
Remember also that even though it's a fact that a huge amount of Slashdot users are interested in articles like this, still I'd imagine that a "normal" article with actual information attracts more readers, and therefore causes more traffic and server load. I could be wrong too, but I doubt it. ;)
They survived this before, just saying that judging their performance now by this article may not be correct. Subject does matter.
From Slashdot File: [slashdot]
And now Microsoft will turn it to Open Software so volunteers can start an own fork of it and continue deveploving it. .. and will win eurovision song contest and soccer world championship. And SCO will be popular again.
OR, then not.
Internet itself is one hell of a school (and provides high quality education).
Spend few months here and you can continue eating that kebab no matter how sick popup jumps up your screen.
Well since everyone else is advocating The Best Light Window Manager(tm) too, here goes:
PWM: http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/
PWM is not actively deveploved anymore, but this is really not that bad thing. There are a lot of sofware projects that should stop for a while and focus on fixing bugs instead of adding new features (BLOAT). Read more from the website if you're interested.
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