On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14/03/2013 16:07, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2013-03-14, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to >>> compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared >>> to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such? >> >> I just did a test, and they're all the same. >> >> CDs/DVDS of various distros dropped from a height of 1m all hit the >> floor simultaneously [there are random variations due to aerodynamic >> instability of the disk shape, but it's the same for all distros]. If >> launched horizontally with spin to provide attitude stability (thrown >> like a frisbee), they all fly the same. > > > nonononononono, gentoo is much faster. > > I did the same test, but comparing Centos on a DVD with Gentoo on a USB > stick. The stick tends to fall about 8% faster, mostly due to removing > those aerodynamic instabilities causing lift effects from the wing-like > shape of the DVD. > > I consider this a perfectly valid test as Gentoo is designed to let me > remove unwanted side-effects from the environment. The shape of a DVD > was unwanted, so I made a tweak to take it out. > >
Nice try, but CentOS has a network install option. So before you guys get up the elevator to the tenth floor, the sysad on the ground has already smashed the machine in frustration.
