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
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis(a)awesomeplay.com>