On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:52:15PM +0000, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
Pointing out the obvious why doesn't somebody test core 3 against
a
fully source built distro like Gentoo and see if the performance gains
are real - thats not just benchmark, but perceived responsiveness. If
the gains are that huge then users will cry ever louder and it will
happen.... thats the open source way.
Because its an apples/oranges comparison. Unless you have the exact
same versions of software, with exactly the same patches, with
exactly the same configuration options, on exactly the same kernel/glibc,
and only different compiler flags for the application, you're comparing
N different things at the same time, resulting in a cumulative effect
rather than a direct 1:1 comparison.
Or alternately some people can "fork off" and build their
own Fedora
based distro - Redhat lawyers permitting.......
We didn't send lawyers after the folks rebuilding RHEL packages into
binary distros, so I can't see why we'd do so for Fedora, as long
as any trademark's were respected etc.
Dave