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Originally Posted by microchip8
as you can see, most of your memory is cached which is a good thing as free memory is useless and also it is faster when apps are cached in memory compared to always loading them from disk
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I am not checking cached memory, just -/+ buffers/cache. I am quite impressed that even with Firefox running it is still beneath 150 megs.
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Originally Posted by microchip8
further, KDE4 has a smaller memory footprint than KDE3 so a comparison here is not valid. Maybe Sidux compiles everything with -finline-functions which can make software run ~10% faster and which SUSE 11.2 will also use for all its packages. Presonally, on my machines, SUSE is very fast for me
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Yes, recent versions of OpenSuSE (primaryly 11 and 11.1) have very good performance for me too. I am not that sure that sidux compiles many packages, maybe just some core stuff (like kernels), all other packages are part of Debian Sid branch and I already wrote that I doubt that Debian has any special optimizations. But you never know...
Anyway, my comparision was between Fedora and sidux, both running KDE4.