On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 14:24 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > debian over ubuntu hands down for speed and for efficient resources > utilization. it's a harder install, but for me well worth the extra > work.
This claim is nonsense. Upstart likely will shorten the startup for Ubuntu, even while it might start tons more unneeded services, than Debian does, assumed your Debian does use SysVinit. 32-bit packages are better optimized to modern CPUs by Ubuntu, than Debian packages. > On 1/24/14, tom arnall <kloro2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. > > > > > > System: > > > > Dell latitude D630 > > dual core > > 2g memory > > > > > > most used applications: > > > > icewm > > gnome-terminal > > vim > > perl > > chrome browser > > transmission > > > > > > Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of it. > > > > Any info/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Shortest startup? Best graphic performance? IOW fastest what? You're using apps that aren't critical regarding to performance and you run those apps on a lightweight WM, so I wonder what performance you want improve. There's no more or less fast distro. Linux is the kernel and even a distro specific patch unlikely has got noticeable impact to performance for your setup. Sure, Ubuntu by default likely starts tons of unneeded services, while Arch doesn't start any service, but a user could set up Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Arch or any other distro the same way. What performance do you want to increase? I suspect you want to know what distro's default install will provide the best performance for the task/s you didn't mention. An example: -If I use Debian with a vanilla kernel, then the GUI performance is good, but the audio performance is bad. -If I use Debian with a real-time patched kernel, then the GUI performance is bad, but the audio performance is good (because it's wanted this way ;). IOW sometimes you simply need to take care about priorities and when not using real-time, you also could care for nice values. If you e.g. use PAM: $ cat /etc/security/limits.conf # [snip] # - priority - the priority to run user process with # [snip] # - nice - max nice priority allowed to raise to values: [-20, 19] # [snip] Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1401337298.665.75.camel@archlinux
