Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/14/15 06:45, Rex Dieter wrote: >> David Cary Hart wrote: >> >>> their KDE spin takes less than half the tim >> Considering fedora's live install is not much more than dd'ing the live >> iso directly to disk, I find it interesting that some other method could >> be over twice as fast. >> > > Guess what? It isn't. > > I decided to compare installing the F22 Live to disk and Kubuntu 15.04 to > disk. Of course the comparison cannot be 100% equal since there are going > to be differences in the number and size of packages installed. That > said, the downloaded sizes of the iso are fairly similar and take nearly > the same time to download. > > 1312456704 Jun 14 16:16 kubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso > 1233125376 May 22 03:12 Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-22-3.iso > > The total time from start to completion of the "install to disk" process > in minutes is... > > 07:19 kubutu > 08:40 F22 > > I suspect part of the additional time needed for the install is due to > Fedora having selinux and the time needed to apply the contexts. So, > really not much time difference IMO. > > Now, what really interested me is that during the install of kubuntu I > checked the box saying to "apply updates during install" and indeed there > was network activity and notifications that files were being downloaded. > However, after booting and logging in the system soon reported there were > 238 packages needing updates and that took just over 7 minutes to > complete. > > Fedora reported 391 packages to be updated and the time needed to install > was 12:32. Again, not a valid comparison due to the unknown of package > size and other factors. Fedora had about 64% more packages to be updated. > If you increase the time used by kubuntu by 64% you get 688 seconds for > kubutu and 752 for Fedora. Pretty close. > > FWIW, I wasn't happy with one aspect of kubuntu install. kubuntu uses > your timezone information to set the created user's locale while Fedora > uses the language you pick at install. So, with Fedora I was set up with > a US locale and with kubuntu I was set up a Taiwan locale. > > All in all, the install experience for me are pretty much the same. Interesting findings, thanks! -- Rex -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
