On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:52:15PM +0000, Jonathan Andrews wrote: > Pointing out the obvious why doesn't somebody test core 3 against a > fully source built distro like Gentoo and see if the performance gains > are real - thats not just benchmark, but perceived responsiveness. If > the gains are that huge then users will cry ever louder and it will > happen.... thats the open source way. Because its an apples/oranges comparison. Unless you have the exact same versions of software, with exactly the same patches, with exactly the same configuration options, on exactly the same kernel/glibc, and only different compiler flags for the application, you're comparing N different things at the same time, resulting in a cumulative effect rather than a direct 1:1 comparison. > Or alternately some people can "fork off" and build their own Fedora > based distro - Redhat lawyers permitting....... We didn't send lawyers after the folks rebuilding RHEL packages into binary distros, so I can't see why we'd do so for Fedora, as long as any trademark's were respected etc. Dave
