Arch Linux 2009.8 Vs Ubuntu 9.04

[joeelmex]

This is a great article to read. In the test I was curious about the gaming aspect but unfortunately they only did 1 game. World of Padman and Arch won by 5 more FPS overall. Here is the article and it's a good read.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...nchmarks&num=1

I think on the reading and writing to the HD's its an unfair test due to Ubuntu using the older ext3 file format to the ext4 on Arch. When I did try to setup Arch, I stayed with ext3. All you Arch fans out there, you got a lead over me when it comes to gaming.


Only if I have been able to install arch linux to try.

[Necromancer90]

Hmm, I haven't used arch for a while, I might have to look into it.
Thanks for the article.

[pixelot]

Lawlz... I don't need convincing. I'll switch at some point.

[archer7]

The latest arch package for nvidia is version 190.18

[joeelmex]

Well Archer, I could not enjoy the fruits of Arch Linux, I could never get the raid setup correctly. Sooner or later I get it. LoL

[archer7]

Yeah, your setup is especially hard. I never had to deal with raid. My first go was with regular old primary partitions.

[FFZERO]

Well Archer, I could not enjoy the fruits of Arch Linux, I could never get the raid setup correctly. Sooner or later I get it. LoL

Fake (software) raid or software (hardware) raid? I can setup my linux server in raid1 using fake raid with ease . However, software raid is confusing. I am still deciding which DE should I use or should I go hardcore using a *box system.

[joeelmex]

I think Linux terms is fakeraid, its using the program DMRAID to make it work.

[FFZERO]

Off-Topic: When you try to install fakeraid, where are you stuck on? You definitely need to load dm_mod and your chipset (if required). If you get a kernal panic after setting up a install, you may have to reinstall grub.

Make sure you setup the raid in your bios before trying fakeraid. Good luck!

[joeelmex]

To answer your question, hardware wise, it was setup by entering my intel raid utility at boot up and setup a striped raid 0 Volume. I was following this guide here

"http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...with_Fake-RAID"

I got lost here
""Add your_chipset_module_driver and dm_mod to MODULES line in mkinitcpio.conf. IMPORTANT: if you have a mirrored (RAID 1) array, you'll need to add dm_mirror as well.
Add dmraid to HOOKS line in mkinitcpio.conf, preferably after sata but before filesystems.
Exit menu and make sure dmraid is one of the hooks.
"

Had no idea what exactly was my chipset, but I did manage to setup the partitions, and set the file systems as ext 3 on my root and home partition. I made the root partition as the boot was was planning on setting grub there. I never got to the gub part, i left off in the configuration part.