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Speed of Debian
by Ben Hall on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @11:35

Yeah, I noticed this too.

I was a long time Mandrake user before I tried out Potato and I haven't looked back.

I have two hard drives right now: Debian Sid (My main machine) and Mandrake 8.0 (for testing things like KDE alphas..) and the speed difference between the two is amazing!

I use Mandrake for an hour or two, go back to Debian and can't believe it's the same base OS and _identicle_ hardware.

It's too bad too, as all of Mandrake's bells and whistles are tempting. On the other hand, how often do you play with NIC/printer settings once they're working?

I've been working on the same Debian install from last October, Mandrake's been through several versions since then.

Debian is super-sweet. I love that I do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and voila! up-to-date OS.

Getting back to the point, I also have no idea why Mandrake/Red Hat is so much slower. I run Apache, sendmail, VMWare, SSHd, OpenLDAP and a slew of other servers on my Debian box too, and it's zippy. I'd love to help you investigate these differences..

Ben

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