[H-GEN] Choice of distro for server

[mick]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:25:40 +1000
Julian DeMarchi <julian at jdcomputers.com.au> wrote:

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> On 03/29/2012 03:04 PM, mick wrote:
> > debian (was slower than a one legged donkey unless I built a custom kernel and then they bound in selinux and I couldn't get rid of it and it wouldn't boot any kernel I built.
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> In what way was it slow? In my 8 years with debian, never noticed it was
> slow.
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Particularly is file handling and graphics e.g. launch openoffice with 500 page formated document and display it - up to 20% faster with custom kernel (support for all hardware I had built in, filesystem built in, remove all the support for everything I didn't have).

mick