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Quote: Originally Posted by Kano Well I don't have got such lowend hardware, but bootchart is about 15s with E8400 and a pure Kanotix install Would we expect any different distro, Kano? As deanjo said- shameless plug? While boot times are nifty, I honestly wish they'd sort out PulseAudio problems (I go ...

I'd like to think that he wants to focus on the basic computer user's needs and fundamental things like usability, work flow, and interface design. No clue how good he is at all of it but hopefully fairly decent.

This is really old news.

Can someone check to see if Ubuntu uses debugging packages in their pre-releases? Distros used to build them to spot more bugs but they used to run slower

For those interested: there's an initial patch to make KDM work with Plymouth. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206089#c2

CVS? Ouch, a project with the size of Fedora was using CVS at this age and time? Welcome to 2009, I guess.

Gentoo faster than Ubuntu? What else is new

In Sunflow Rendering System v0.07.2 Quote: Ending out today's testing are our Sunflow results, where Mac OS X 10.6 ended with another win. This Java-based ray-tracing system was nearly 50% faster than Ubuntu 9.10. This is also another test where Ubuntu 9.10 had regressed compared to Ubuntu 9.04. nearly 50% faster than Ubuntu 9.10!? Ubuntu 9...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pfanne way to go! for a first post! Even though the comment contained nothing constructive which wasn't very nice, of course disliking it isn't invalid and I myself find Fedora's usability lagging behind Ubuntu still from last I checked (12). The funny thing is Fedora often ...