OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20292/Asus_Eee_PC_901_Linux_Distribution_Comparison Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 13:37:29 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com So different? http://www.osnews.com/thread?330407 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330407 How come they can be _that_ different for these task? I mean, its the same hardware, almost the same kernel, similar libraries... Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (big_gie) Comments fedora 10 alpha - debugging build? http://www.osnews.com/thread?330408 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330408 does anyone know if the fedora 10 alphais build with debugging and non-optimised compiles? Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (project_2501) Comments RE: So different? http://www.osnews.com/thread?330409 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330409 ...different compilation flags for the binary packages, i suppose. Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xfranky) Comments Worth noting... http://www.osnews.com/thread?330420 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330420 ...that Mandriva 2009 final will use kernel 2.6.27, not 2.6.26 as was in the beta tested.

I'm still not all that convinced by this kind of performance comparison, especially on a system which is likely to be used for fairly light tasks. I'd find a comparison of overall functionality under the given OS, including a subjective impression of performance if necessary, most interesting.

Some of the results are, I think, just silly, like the ImageMagick compile time. I can't think of any reason on Earth it would somehow magically be twice as fast on Fedora as every other distro tested. I find it far more likely that the default configuration of the distros led to something being disabled in the compilation on Fedora that was enabled in the compilation on the other distros, leading to the discrepancy. Compile times are a fairly simple function of CPU speed and having enough memory, and I just can't see anything a distro can do that would affect the performance of a compilation process to that extent.

To be honest, I don't think the integrity of this benchmark has been sufficiently demonstrated yet...it's a good effort on Phoronix's part to make it, but I'm not entirely sure it's yet reliable enough to draw much in the way of conclusions. Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments RE: fedora 10 alpha - debugging build? http://www.osnews.com/thread?330486 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330486
does anyone know if the fedora 10 alpha is build with debugging and non-optimised compiles?

Yes, it is. Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Finalzone) Comments inspired to install Ubuntu http://www.osnews.com/thread?330490 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330490 I have the older 701 eee and I just got the 1000 H eee. The 1000 came with XP preinstalled. I have Ubuntu on the 701. I was looking for a good reason to try Ubuntu on the 1000 H. The performance with the Atom CPU looks great with Ubuntu running. I ended up getting the 1000 H since the eee was slow running XP and the mini keyboard was frustrating me. Any suggestions about what one can do with an older 701? Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments RE: inspired to install Ubuntu http://www.osnews.com/thread?330491 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330491 Hello, I am an official EeePC reclamation service. For no charge to you, the end user, I can take your older EeePC and ensure it is properly disposed of! Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments Comment by buff http://www.osnews.com/thread?330508 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330508 I can take your older EeePC and ensure it is properly disposed of!
I was planning on selling it on ebay or craigslist for 100 USD, preinstalled with Ubuntu. Send me a private message if you are interested in it. I also added an extra 1 Gig memory chip to it. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments RE: So different? http://www.osnews.com/thread?330524 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330524 Benchmark mistakes happen sure, but this doesn't mean it's always the case: RedHat is shipping a Perl version which is ten-times slower than the official Perl because they used a beta version as their basis for their package..
So no, it's not always the same sources and the difference can be sometimes very significant between distribution.

Investigating the reason why there's such difference would be interesting (could be memory usage: if a distribution has many daemon started, it could trigger swap usage which slow downs things a *lot*) but it's also significantly more work.. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (renox) Comments RE: Worth noting... http://www.osnews.com/thread?330531 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330531
especially on a system which is likely to be used for fairly light tasks


Likely, likely.. This piss me off: you do realise that many people don't have the money to buy several computers?
Or more precisely don't want to spend more money than they need on computers, so they'll buy a laptop for the mobility and use it for *everything*. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (renox) Comments RE[2]: Worth noting... http://www.osnews.com/thread?330593 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330593 Or more precisely don't want to spend more money than they need on computers, so they'll buy a laptop for the mobility and use it for *everything*.

While true, I don't think many people will be buy a netbook (a little laptop) for their one-stop computing needs. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MattPie) Comments RE[3]: Worth noting... http://www.osnews.com/thread?330656 http://www.osnews.com/thread?330656 Well, the price of a 701 is lower than the rest of the other laptops.

That said, you're right that a used laptop with a replacement battery might be more interesting in this situation. Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (renox) Comments