RH9 vs Fedora vs RHEL-3-WS

From: Ed Greshko (Ed.Greshko_at_greshko.com)
Date: 10/31/03

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Date: 31 Oct 2003 16:13:15 +0800

    First, this is an observation not an opinion. :-)

    My HW is a Dual Xeon 2.8GHz on an Intel SE7505VB2. It has 1GB of RAM,
    an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 running the drivers from Nvidia.

    My current OS is a fully up2date RH9.

    I also run VMware. The OSs I had been running are WinXP, Win2K, Win2003
    Server, RH7.3, RH9, RHEL-2.1-WS.

    Since I have a fully licensed version of RHEL-2.1-WS I found that I was
    eligible to download RHEL-3-WS. So, I did that and installed it as a
    guest OS in VMware.

    While experimenting with RHEL-3-WS I noticed, curiously enough, that
    things just seemed to be going much quicker than in the other RH OS I've
    been using in VMware. I though it strange since it is a VM and is
    running with under the RH9 OS.

    I then decided to run out and get a new disk to do a "native" install of
    RHEL-3-WS. I had been running a 160GB SATA drive from Western Digital.
    I stayed with WD but decided to go with the 250GB drive. Same rotation,
    same cache.

    Low and behold RHEL-3-WS is faster than RH9 or Fedora on my hardware.
    I observed an overall 20-30% decrease in the amount of time for most
    operations.

    An extreme illustration is the time it takes for the first user to login
    to a KDE desktop after the system has been booted. The first login
    following a reboot takes about 53 seconds when I boot to RH9. With
    RHEL-3-WS it takes about 18 seconds. The difference is less on
    subsequent logins. But, in all cases RHEL-3-WS gets me there quicker.

    Things like Evolution start in a flash on RHEL while it takes noticeably
    longer (but not really annoying) on RH9.

    Again, just my observation. YMMV....

    Now, I do have a bit of migration work to do since RHEL-3-WS doesn't
    support all the drivers/devices that RH9 does. For example, it doesn't
    install bttv (video capture) by default. You have to install it from an
    rpm labeled "unsupported".

    Yet, I still will move to RHEL-3-WS very shortly. The cost of a
    subscription is not, IMHO, too high when you consider it breaks down to
    about $0.25/day. Besides, Red Hat stock has gone up by 130% since I
    bought it a while back. :-) :-)

    Regards,
    Ed 

    -- 
"An opinion is like an *** - everybody has one."
    - Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan, The Dead Pool - 1988.
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