On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
"D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Not a very analytical statement. Does anyone know if this is true?
If so, why?
There are a lot of variables that can affect the perception of whether a
gui is fast/responsive... Without some formality in testing and benchmark
methodoly, it's all speculation.
A perception of differing resonsiveness is not the most overt difference I
notice when going back and forth between my laptop, which is presently
running ubuntu and my desktop which is running fc4/x86_64, which again
means nothing (the hardware is wildly different albeit relativly modern in
both cases).
One question that comes to mind is this: Does Ubuntu support SELinux? If
yes, was it enabled? If no, did they turn it off in FC5 too?
I have read that FC5 is noticeably slower with SELinux enabled than with
SELinux disabled, almost to the point that the speed improvement in Gnome
2.14 is wholly consumed by SELinux. I have SELinux disabled on my home
computer, and it is much faster than FC4 (also with SELinux
disabled). Login from GDM to a usable Gnome desktop takes about two
seconds, and starting Firefox takes less than one second.
Regards
Ingemar
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