From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D6D198005 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:32:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78D92E077C; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f181.google.com (mail-ie0-f181.google.com [209.85.223.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F96FE0675 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:31:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f181.google.com with SMTP id 17so3979188iea.12 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:31:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=oz0it3ymsGeVzT8pwXdM14gwNqN0nuPMeoWOFHjsgOc=; b=FImMjAg7GnWwD+bBDOE//7dgbSxP+XkgoLq067IOWZR2hyBs1TRky/YOyUS4nH0GXn v7K+g1I2tUKdLa2tjgBfW7KVdfBZSkstwTqKEu4h/4wgN3BW1X5SBHKxcAmnGb42ja/W 8pwzoZIx2Nw6P7DAj305OKB+lBgtDAI7UgYjw1OygLWHT+g8AJkbKWetipmNHAwx7l+x hExThOB1NFgxNVcbFn3sv2wGj+R9V340jEm7wv6gR0C0B0tVIf/C+BOWb7631rKkV/g7 Nf6XKSs2n9rSAcv/zRHUGaDWPglYEoIrKjz5WPpMXV9iL1hywhSLM36NmSZqq/3vqnJF jyww== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.57.200 with SMTP id k8mr261819igq.44.1363325519369; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:31:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.50.100.1 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:31:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5141DABC.1000507@gmail.com> References: <51418728.7020406@gmail.com> <5141DABC.1000507@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:31:59 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros From: Mark David Dumlao To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: b4bab75b-15e7-44b4-bc9b-d98aeb9824bb X-Archives-Hash: d771737012154d4ce007956f26b51ab9 On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 14/03/2013 16:07, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2013-03-14, Dale wrote: >> >>> I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to >>> compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared >>> to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such? >> >> I just did a test, and they're all the same. >> >> CDs/DVDS of various distros dropped from a height of 1m all hit the >> floor simultaneously [there are random variations due to aerodynamic >> instability of the disk shape, but it's the same for all distros]. If >> launched horizontally with spin to provide attitude stability (thrown >> like a frisbee), they all fly the same. > > > nonononononono, gentoo is much faster. > > I did the same test, but comparing Centos on a DVD with Gentoo on a USB > stick. The stick tends to fall about 8% faster, mostly due to removing > those aerodynamic instabilities causing lift effects from the wing-like > shape of the DVD. > > I consider this a perfectly valid test as Gentoo is designed to let me > remove unwanted side-effects from the environment. The shape of a DVD > was unwanted, so I made a tweak to take it out. > > Nice try, but CentOS has a network install option. So before you guys get up the elevator to the tenth floor, the sysad on the ground has already smashed the machine in frustration.