On Monday 24 October 2005 12:53, Billy Holmes wrote:
> Luis Medinas wrote:
> > Yes there's a way... buy a faster processor. Those patches for kernel
> > might speed up a few ms but nothing special.
>
> those patches are not designed  to speed up your machine, but to allow
> you use it for many tasks that don't require high throughput. When, the
> goal is to treat as many tasks as possible as equals with little to no
> resource starvation for tasks that need interactivity, then the stock
> kernel is not enough.
>
> Try untaring a huge file, compile a kernel, play an mp3, and browse the
> internet on a stock kernel. It can't done. Something suffers: the mp3
> skips or the browser is not responsive. With ck-sources, for my
> multi-user desktop use, I don't have a problem.
Would you say that gentoo-source handle this problem with around the same 
quality, or would you suggest ck-sources for a desktop only environment?
-- 
Karol Krizka