Is Arch Linux Really Faster Than Ubuntu?

[Marcelo Cavalcante]

It depends..

I'm an Arch user. I love this distro and it's performance. If you're an user
who understands your system and knows which services should be running,
etc... you won't have this kind of problem with any distro you want.

For example.. For default Arch is faster than almost every distro. Why?
Because it comes with almost nothing. YOU, and nobody else, will choose what
to install.. services, modules, etc...

After install almost everything the system will start to be less faster.

This new version of ubuntu is much more fast then the others. That's a fact.
But in my case, I do still prefer my Arch. After the whole system is up and
running (including GUI) Arch still faster IF you don't install a lot of
services and modules unnecessary.

As I said.. I don't really trust this kind of article sayind that distro X
is faster or better than distro Y. It's ALWAYS up to you. You are the user.
If you can control and configure your system as you want.. your system will
be perfect for your needs.

Best regards...
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On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Michael Lauzon <mlauzon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Has anyone read this article "Is Arch Linux Really Faster Than
> Ubuntu?", if so, what are your thoughts, if you haven't here is a
> brief excerpt with a link to the full 6 page article to follow:
>
> "Often when we are preparing for cross-distribution comparisons or
> benchmarks of different operating systems (like our recent Mac OS X
> 10.6 vs. Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 benchmarks) we are often asked to
> include Arch Linux in the mix. This is usually on the basis of
> including a rolling-release distribution to provide a performance look
> at a constantly evolving distribution with many of the most recent
> open-source packages rather than a traditional distribution with
> packages that may be months older. Many of those requesting Arch be
> included in our testing mix also claim that Arch performs
> significantly faster than Ubuntu and our usual test candidates. The
> main reason we do not deliver many benchmarks of Arch, Gentoo, or
> other distributions that use a rolling release approach is that they
> are not very reproducible with their results since their packages are
> frequently changing and there are more end-user customizations going
> on compared to most other distributions. However, to test the
> performance claims of Arch versus others, we have compared the
> performance of the newest Arch 2010.05 media against Ubuntu Linux."
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_arch_faster&num=1
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Michael Lauzon
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