Why is speed of a distro even an issue?? Turn off the crap you don't want if you want to go faster. You aren't going to get significant speed gains by switching distros. If you don't want to lose feature set, the MOST you can expect to gain by switching distros while retaining your current feature set is maybe 5%.
Unfortunately, speed is an issue for Ubuntu users. [Examples are the use of cairo and firefox 1.0.7 (famous for its slowness in the Ubuntu community)] And other (comparable) distros may show speed gains when compared to Ubuntu. What would you expect when your lsmod is 3 pages long?
I agree with your solution proposal (compile kernel), but the costumized boot scripts and some other problems make it difficult to have a stable and fully-functional (own compile) kernel in Ubuntu. Hence, for Linux newbies (Ubuntu's audience), to get speed means to try to switch to another distro.
not to mention the not-so-much known problem that Ubuntu -Breezy- starts slowing down (yes, like Windows) with time.
anything above N=30 in each category (A, B, C etc) will give you statistical significance. But the article isn't doing an ANOVA, and not everyone cares about statistics (too flexible to support any lie).
"We're missing an operating system. You could argue that it makes a lot of sense for us to look at distributing and supporting Linux."
Well, if you want to support Linux, give money to Linux-related open source projects you like. Coming up with a new distro with the argument of "supporting Linux" is not logical.
PS. I know and support the argument that the huge number of distros is a benefit of Linux. But an Oracle Distro? I don't buy that...
With every new release, CPU usage goes up by 10-20% in my system (ubuntu linux). I'm getting sick of this. May be with Dapper (clean install), I should upgrade myself to epiphany... The heat burns my private places now (laptop). aie aie
Hopefully now, the British government will act against Guantanamo in a satisfying way... now that one of their "real" (sic) citizens will end up there... Also, this quote is interesting:
Government wants to extract some kind of species of administrative revenge because he exposed their security systems as weak and helpless as they were.
Interesting comment... I thought mine was just as humorous. Never mind then...
Stop being such a FAG!
I see no relevance between homosexuality and my comment. and nothing wrong with being gay. But I'm guessing you missed the LGBT movement. I'm not surprised, as you're still living in 1950's McCartyism.
For the precompiled slmodemd (from linmodems.org), I wouldn't be able to stay connected without nice. Anytime CPU usage goes to 80-100%, an un-niced slmodemd will be unable to process info in time and connection will drop. nice (-19) nicely solves this, although stability decreases bc slmodem needs the CPU anytime data is coming from the net.
I wish we had better support for winmodems in Linux... [sorry for offtopic]
FTFA: Cyberattackers can take over a computer by appropriating that safeguard to make the machine interrupt operations and enter System Management Mode, Duflot said.
If they already have that much access to the system, aren't you already screwed?
Decide already... Is this a cyberattack (online) or a physical attack (you sit in front of the computer and take out a blowtorch)??
I sholdn't have to file bugs for errors that freaking stupid on a PRODUCTION RELEASE
from my pov, the structure of linux distros give you a chance to increase the quality of the distro you are trying by filing bugs. if you don't like something, rather than ranting about it (no offense), it is better to file a bug. Chances are, that bug will be resolved in the next release, and everyone will be happy. Another alternative is to get feedback from the devels after filing a bug that resulted in "WONTFIX". This is usually accompanied by a reason, and thus you'll know what's not wrong with their implementation.
I personally prefer to file bugs (or post to forums or email developer when no bugzilla is implemented by the distro) in distros I tried and don't even consider to go back/use.
An example would be Slax, and my reason for not going back is simple: I don't have a reason to use a LiveCD... One of their extensions didn't work, and I didn't like their implementation of user accounts (only root, new user cannot be created due to some weird bug, possibly in the filesystem implementation), so I emailed the devel and posted to the forum. They will be fixing the extension and they gave a reason (that it's a LiveCD) for not fixing the issue with non-root accounts.
the default GCC installed (GCC 4.0) from the default debian repositories cannot build executables,/etc/security/console.perms is missing,/etc/ld.so.conf is missing
Secure Blue by IBM will keep users' data encrypted and secured at virtually every moment on essentially anything in which the chip can be used.... This has to be considered decidedly anti-Homeland Defense by the current administration.
I don't get the reference to Homeland Security? Is this the result of the newest US social scare, or is it really relevant?
Anyway, this could be bad news in two ways: 1. It will be used for DRM for sure 2. You won't be able to see what's going on on your employee's computer (which is good news for the employee)
But how does the Homeland Security gets injected into this issue? I mean, will some poor encryption (of which the specs can be supoeaned under the patriot act) stop the Department of Homeland Security from getting into our hard drives and data? I wish someone could clarify this...
Let's say real-life mobs exploit people's addiction to narcotics to make money. In this instance, these virtual-mobs are using people's addiction to MS Windows to make money[1]. Hence Narcotics => Windows. As a result, this current item is relates nicely to this article on open standards?
[1] Those zero day exploits wouldn't exist (or, wouldn't be useful even if they existed) if Windows code was open to see and modify. For example, the most severe security bug (sudo password saved in plain text) I saw in Ubuntu was fixed and uploaded to the repositories in about 2-3 hours. Why would you want to buy any exploits that will become obsolete 3 hours after you used it?
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I agree with your solution proposal (compile kernel), but the costumized boot scripts and some other problems make it difficult to have a stable and fully-functional (own compile) kernel in Ubuntu. Hence, for Linux newbies (Ubuntu's audience), to get speed means to try to switch to another distro.
not to mention the not-so-much known problem that Ubuntu -Breezy- starts slowing down (yes, like Windows) with time.
PS. I know and support the argument that the huge number of distros is a benefit of Linux. But an Oracle Distro? I don't buy that...
With every new release, CPU usage goes up by 10-20% in my system (ubuntu linux). I'm getting sick of this. May be with Dapper (clean install), I should upgrade myself to epiphany... The heat burns my private places now (laptop). aie aie
point taken.
Oh, wait... yes...
Crap! I thought this would be a good counter-argument...
\\:D/
I wish we had better support for winmodems in Linux...
[sorry for offtopic]
As per software, I would recommend Qemu.
I personally prefer to file bugs (or post to forums or email developer when no bugzilla is implemented by the distro) in distros I tried and don't even consider to go back/use.
An example would be Slax, and my reason for not going back is simple: I don't have a reason to use a LiveCD... One of their extensions didn't work, and I didn't like their implementation of user accounts (only root, new user cannot be created due to some weird bug, possibly in the filesystem implementation), so I emailed the devel and posted to the forum. They will be fixing the extension and they gave a reason (that it's a LiveCD) for not fixing the issue with non-root accounts.
That might also put an end to the Microsoft monopoly ;)
[1] Those zero day exploits wouldn't exist (or, wouldn't be useful even if they existed) if Windows code was open to see and modify. For example, the most severe security bug (sudo password saved in plain text) I saw in Ubuntu was fixed and uploaded to the repositories in about 2-3 hours. Why would you want to buy any exploits that will become obsolete 3 hours after you used it?
ok, seriously, how is this troll? may be redundant ok, or overrated... but troll? wow: some mod needs his/her coffee injection...
and, is this FP? :p