[ale] Which Distro should I use?

[cfowler]

I'm not sure what you guys mean by faster?  To me linux is the a kernel
and not th software behind it.  So maybe RedHat's KDE/Gnmode crap is
slowing you down.  Or running stuff you do not need ran.

After a fresh RH install I do many things.  I clean our crap I do not
want ran at startup like the mouse daemon.  Next, I remove all my
mingettys except tty1 and tty2.  All that does not necessarily gain me
more speed,  It just makes bootup go much faster and saves a few bytes
of memory here and there.

But I think that RH8.0 loads both Gnome and KDE's libraries.  That does
not make a difference on my devel machine because I run KDE as my
desktop and Evolution as my mail program.  I don't think KDE hsa a good
offering when it comes to mail.  KMail does not cut it.


On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 09:13, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> 1. Is Gentoo "faster?" 
> Someone on this list mentioned that Gentoo may be noticably "faster" than 
> RedHat. I have a need for more speed, and I am not wanting to research why 
> RedHat 8.0 is crashing on the two boxes that I have it on. I have heard 
> positive things about Gentoo, and I like the apt-get functionality that I 
> added to RedHat (which is allegedly more like how Gentoo manages things).
> Also, while I am at it. Microsoft had some sort of 3rd party software that 
> would help you get it to run faster (by telling you what's running and giving 
> tips on what you can remove). 
> 
> 2. Is there something like that for Linux?
>  I want to try to streamline my box to try to get more speed.
> 
> 3. I am stuck with the hardware that I have (just bought another AMD computer 
> - by the way be greatful that you guys live where hardware is cheap. Stuff is 
> 30-50% more here.) but I can add more RAM. 
> 
> Will doubling the RAM make a noticable difference?
> 
> Drew
> 
> 
> On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:22, David Corbin wrote:
> > root wrote:
> > >I've been using Redhat for about a year now(please don't hate me) ;) and
> > >I've decided I should try another distro.  I'm interested in getting the
> > >level 1 LPI certification, I just wanted some input as to which would be
> > >the best for me to try out.  I can get my way around but I still have a
> > >lot to learn.  Any input would be greatly apprciated.  Thanks, Nick
> > >
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> > Well, any answer you get is likely to be Religous in nature :).  Debian
> > is significantly different from RedHat, and will give you some broader
> > exposure.  Besides, it's better :)
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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