[PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

wes plug at the-wes.com
Thu Dec 24 06:54:08 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Mike Connors <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I thought it was odd they chose Ubuntu to compare against. I would think
> Debian testing, RHEL, or Suse would be a more appropriate choice.
>
> I've run Debian stable and now testing on my laptop for about 3 yrs. Gladly
> trading some of the conveniences of Ubuntu for speed, as it always seemed
> sluggish to me compared to Debian.
>
>
Ubuntu seems like a good choice to compare speed with to me, as it has
somewhat of a reputation of being slow compared to other distros. it's the
trade-off for usability.

-wes



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