First, this is an observation not an opinion. :-)
My HW is a Dual Xeon 2.8GHz on an Intel SE7505VB2. It has 1GB of RAM,
an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 running the drivers from Nvidia.
My current OS is a fully up2date RH9.
I also run VMware. The OSs I had been running are WinXP, Win2K, Win2003
Server, RH7.3, RH9, RHEL-2.1-WS.
Since I have a fully licensed version of RHEL-2.1-WS I found that I was
eligible to download RHEL-3-WS. So, I did that and installed it as a
guest OS in VMware.
While experimenting with RHEL-3-WS I noticed, curiously enough, that
things just seemed to be going much quicker than in the other RH OS I've
been using in VMware. I though it strange since it is a VM and is
running with under the RH9 OS.
I then decided to run out and get a new disk to do a "native" install of
RHEL-3-WS. I had been running a 160GB SATA drive from Western Digital.
I stayed with WD but decided to go with the 250GB drive. Same rotation,
same cache.
Low and behold RHEL-3-WS is faster than RH9 or Fedora on my hardware.
I observed an overall 20-30% decrease in the amount of time for most
operations.
An extreme illustration is the time it takes for the first user to login
to a KDE desktop after the system has been booted. The first login
following a reboot takes about 53 seconds when I boot to RH9. With
RHEL-3-WS it takes about 18 seconds. The difference is less on
subsequent logins. But, in all cases RHEL-3-WS gets me there quicker.
Things like Evolution start in a flash on RHEL while it takes noticeably
longer (but not really annoying) on RH9.
Again, just my observation. YMMV....
Now, I do have a bit of migration work to do since RHEL-3-WS doesn't
support all the drivers/devices that RH9 does. For example, it doesn't
install bttv (video capture) by default. You have to install it from an
rpm labeled "unsupported".
Yet, I still will move to RHEL-3-WS very shortly. The cost of a
subscription is not, IMHO, too high when you consider it breaks down to
about $0.25/day. Besides, Red Hat stock has gone up by 130% since I
bought it a while back. :-) :-)
Regards,
Ed
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"An opinion is like an asshole - everybody has one."
- Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan, The Dead Pool - 1988.
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