On 2020-02-29 17:24, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Saturday 2020-02-29 16:22, Frans de Boer wrote:
Very much more happy. I just don't understand why so much effort is made - or in my view energy wasted - to make a "new" distribution, based on years of old/ancient (core) packages. I, however, can understand that one would take a snapshot of TW and iron out some bugs and let that live for some time. That sounds more productive then reverting to 3-4 years old packages. You talk the talk, but when was the last time you *actually* needed a glibc package right out of the factory?
I have not chosen a specific package from factory, just stayed up-to-date with TW. But using mathematical functions from TW-glibc works much faster now then the older glibc version as used within leap15.x. And yes, for ordinary office work, leap15.x is fast enough. One can easily check the slowdown by comparing boinc & seti@home. The latter is up-to four times slower then under TW. When I use self selected mathematical (mostly integer) functions from glibc, I experience about the same slowdown. Because of the lack of development resources, I understand that Leap15.x is just a marketing ploy. Binding less experience people with the promise of a "stable" OS, while feeding them tried and tested, but ancient, tools/functions. --- Frans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org