On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 23:56 -0600, Joseph Wagner wrote: > Hello Linux Naysayers! > > You may remember about two months ago I started a flame war asking why RPM > packages were still optimized for 386. The best answer I heard said that > the powers-that-be do not believe there would be a noticeable improvement, > and if I wanted to affect real change I would need to prove them wrong. > > So I've set out to do just that. > > I'm here today to announce the Hypersonic Penguins project. > > http://www.hypersonicpenguins.org > > Details are spelled out on the website, so I won't repeat them here. > However, I will summarize by saying it has RPM packages optimized for 686. No, they aren't. Not a single objective benchmark or measurement. Just "it feels faster" with no proof that it's not just a placebo effect. You might have set out to prove something, but you haven't even started to do so yet. Show some benchmarks. Show how much quicker the X rendering show. Show how much smaller the latency is. Prove it. That build server is about as mis-quoted as it could be. What do you need a Radeon 9600 in a build server for? DVD-RW? Water-cooled case? You think of getting the best CPUs on the market - two of them - and 4GB of RAM, but only ask for a paltry 80GB 7200 disk? Either you have no clue what you're doing, or you're trying to scam people into buying your new gaming box for you. Either way, I certainly hope nobody gives you any money for that thing. *snicker* We just sold 80 old Pentium's at my workplace, to people planning on giving them to grand parents, children, and so on - thankfully Fedora will run on them. You might look into getting some old machines - a setup like that could make an excellent build farm and cost no more than one or two hundred bucks. > > You are invited to download them, install them, and tell me how wrong you > were when you see the faster speed. > > I'm being charged a premium for bandwidth, so please download only the > packages you have installed. > > Thank you for your time and your tolerance. > > Joseph D. Wagner > -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
