Dapper upgrade questions...

[Mario Splivalo]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:04 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 15:22 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:
> 
> > Hello all, I have a few questions about what is going to happen with
> > tomms. upgrade.  I have been reading alot about how people are still
> > having bug problems and things are breaking, and this is the day before
> > release.  
> 
> Breezy (the last version) also still has bug problems and that was
> released 8 months ago.   
> 
> Updates will be a continuous thing, just like it is for Windows or other
> operating systems. 
> 
> The question should be 'What is currently the best Linux distribution
> for me', and chances are that answer will be 'Ubuntu Dapper' especially
> for Desktop PC use.  It's way faster and better than the previous
> release.

Could you shead some more light on that 'way faster' part of your last
sentence?

I'm running breezy on my laptop and home PC, I'll switch to dapper on my
home PC as soon as downloading hype dies down a bit...

But, on breezy, for instance, gnome-terminal is awfully slow. Consider
this:

Open gnome-terminal, make it full screen, and run this:

time echo "for f in range(1,100000): print f," | python

and see how fast is it. Then, do the same, just do it inside xterm.

Here are my results:

gnome-terminal:
real    0m40.649s
user    0m0.237s
sys     0m0.018s
mario at buntor:~$

xterm:
real    0m1.801s
user    0m0.206s
sys     0m0.022s
mario at buntor:~$ 

Some difference, huh? 

	Mike