Fastest Linux Distro?

[mercuryx013]

My vote is for Slackware, but I can't pick it in the poll, so no vote for me!

[M. Sullivan]

Slack of course.

[bucko]

Gentoo, Slackware and debian are fast but you can make any linux OS as fast as you want.

[psyko_x]

hmm u should add slackware to the list of options..thatd be my vote

[insanekiwi]

uh :rolleyes:

the speed of an OS or distro depends on your hardware setup. :sleep:

[Fred Derf Veteran]

uh :rolleyes:

the speed of an OS or distro depends on your hardware setup. :sleep:

Well, you could time how long it takes applications to load (Firefox for instance) across several distros (or even MS Windows) on the same exact platform with the same hardware and the same memory.

But yes, a Pentium 4 running whatever distro is going to be faster than a Pentium 1 running LFS. Hardware is the prime factor.

[vhane]

Out of the distros I've tried: Fedora Core 1/2, Mandrake 9/10, and SuSE 9.1,

they are all about the same speed wise. Probably because they are all sorta the same kind of distro, the kind for noobs who don't want to mess with recompiling the kernel. I've recompiled a bunch of times, but I guess I don't have a good sense of what I'm doing, because I always run into problems.

If you want things to be snappy, try a light weight windows manager like fluxbox. I've found Gnome to be faster on some hardware then KDE, but it really comes down to your video card. Older video cards have some problems with the newest KDE in my experience.

When it comes to boot time, Windows XP is the fastest booting modern OS next to Windows Mobile 2003 (when you have to reboot it). Has anyone been able to optimize Linux to the point where it boots as fast if not faster then Windows XP?

I really need to give Gentoo a try. I have a need for speed, and everyone is always saying that Gentoo is really fast.

My Linux (Arch) and FreeBSD installs boot faster than my Windows XP install.

[Zerosleep]

You're damn right they do.

[nivek7]

I would think Gentoo.

[neowin_hipster]

uh :rolleyes:

the speed of an OS or distro depends on your hardware setup. :sleep:

not even the poll bashers read my post! (or came up with a persuasive argument)

[dotRoot]

one thing that always turned me off linux is the speed, starting up the same app in windows or linux takes much longer in linux (firefox for example), now since i managed to get gentoo installed on my computer i find it much faster than redhat or mandrake but its still not quite as fast as windows....close but not quite

i just wish i could compile windows with cpu optimization....now that would be fast :devil:

I'll assume firefox is the only cross OS app you've tried, because its just not a true statement for most cross OS applications. Look at Open Office on windows and then on Linux on the same machine or even Star Office. Also in my experience most games run a bit smoother in linux than in windows (not emulated).