Hey guys...

I've been using Fedora for quite a while and i've been using Knoppix for around the last 6 months.

I've noticed that Knoppix is so much faster than Fedora on the same hardware, regardless of the computer!

I ran a 'ps aux' on Fedora right after i boot into kde and I have a 130 processes running.

and then I ran a 'ps aux' on knoppix right after i booted into KDE and i had only 80 process running...

I've got a couple more things in the 'rc5.d' (chkconfig) dirctory in fedora... but does that make the diffences in the running processes? and will those rc5.d processess make that much speed difference?

Linux is Linux so it doesn't make that much sense that one should be faster than the other... They're both greater than the 2.6.9 kernels.

Just wondering if anyone had a good explanation...

As a test, i'm gonna try put the bare minimum in 'rc5.d' and see if that makes it...


Please get back to me if anyone can

Thanks

Zubin.

hey all linux distros are different

knoppix is more or like a desktop OS, u won't find heavy utilities on knoppix
fedora needs to be tuned according to your choice
now if have installed fedora with server packages u will have those NFS and other service running

run

chkconfig --list
to see which services are on
u can turn them off by

chkconfig <service name> off

also the kernel is same but the kernel configuration is different
compile yourself a 2.6.9 kernel and you will note the difference
regards

Linux is Linux, okay, but your machine is your machine. 50 more running processes should give any processor more work to do. As said here by masand, Linux distros such as Fedora have to be tuned to your machine and your needs (And in some cases, Knoppix too, I use a Knoppix-based distro now). Try removing unnecessary services from rc5.d (which is a directory where you tell the system what things it should run when it enters run level 5) so that should be where your extra running processes come from. It might make a difference.

Do you guys think that the Knoppix Kernel has less things enabled? thus resulting in quicker speeds???


Zubin

there is no limit upto which u can think about customization in Linux....

regards