It seems a waste that they used the stock Jaguar distrobution instead of creating an optimized distro. If they made a G5 optimized kernel and ran a G5 optimized linpack in single user mode with all unnecssary features stripped out then I bet they could of had at least 10% extra performance. I know, because I compiled Gentoo on my G5 (only took 30 minutes BTW, thats how fast it is) and it runs KDE a hell faster than AQUA. So why did they use a slow operating system on that hardware?
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It seems a waste that they used the stock Jaguar distrobution instead of creating an optimized distro. If they made a G5 optimized kernel and ran a G5 optimized linpack in single user mode with all unnecssary features stripped out then I bet they could of had at least 10% extra performance. I know, because I compiled Gentoo on my G5 (only took 30 minutes BTW, thats how fast it is) and it runs KDE a hell faster than AQUA. So why did they use a slow operating system on that hardware?