rawhide and cooker compared

[Lubomir Kundrak]

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:31 -0500, Austin Acton wrote:
> This may or may not be of any use to you.  It's not meant to be a bug
> report.  It's just my back to back comparison of two distros that people
> think of as being similar or related or in competition for users.  Due
> to the nature of development snapshots, some of the information is out
> of date already (like ondemand scaling, it's fixed).  Hopefully, at the
> very least, someone at Fedora finds it useful to see what works and what
> users like.
> 
> "I've done a crazy thing. I installed the development versions of
> Mandriva Linux (Cooker) and Fedora (Rawhide) back to back on the same
> laptop and compared the results. I was very surprised with the results,
> so I spent several hours trying to make them legible to others. They are
> biased, personal, and hardware-specific, but if you're interested in the
> state of rpm-based linux distros, do check out Rawhide vs. Cooker."

Any ideas why is Mandriva so much better at these?

memory useage at gdm	313 Mb 	57 Mb (WOW!)
glxgreas FPS		930	1200 (who knew?)

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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)