Nitro or Love?

Guinpen · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 393

I've only used nitro-sources, but I have no doubt love-sources are about as great

So I was wondering, which one do you guys prefer over the other? How many people are using either? Are there significant differences? Let's get the statistics snd opinions rolling...

I'm definitely not trying to start a flame war; I believe that the efforts of both teams are commendable and if I had the sufficient knowledge, I would probably be doing something like this myself

Thanks, guys! Keep up the great work!

Hey, I wish I could start a poll....

thebigslide · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject:

There aren't really any benchmarks that show the differences because they mostly have to do with IO scheduling and interactivity. My suggestion would be to try it out and see for yourself what works best on your hardware.

Earthwings · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:57 pm Post subject:

Why use any of them if you don't need the patches (or don't know what's inside)?

Moved from Kernel & Hardware.

Morimando · Guru Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

I'm using 2.6.11-r3-nitro0 at the moment, and it's fine

have never really looked at love sources (sorry the name drove me off), so my opinion is totally boring one-sided.
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Naib · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject:

gotta be the "love" src.
the genetic algorithm is intreging
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uman · Apprentice Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 223

I recommend love-sources because of the total lack of testing and/or quality control in Nitro.
No offence to the Nitro people, it's a great kernel, but it breaks in fun new ways every release. For example, they used CFLAGS that weren't supported in GCC 3.3!
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d0nju4n · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 4:44 pm Post subject:

I use both. On my system, they run at about the same speed. You should try them both and decide for yourself
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hermes_jr · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 4:53 pm Post subject:

ciaranm · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject:

Don't use either.

Titeuf · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:21 pm Post subject:

Do you people that use those kernels really notice any difference with a vanilla kernel or gentoo kernel ?

ciaranm · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject:

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Earthwings · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject:

hermes_jr · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:03 pm Post subject:

uman · Apprentice Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 223

Why are you upgrading the kernel every 8 days...
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hermes_jr · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject:

Verted · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:07 pm Post subject:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? How do they compare to the gentoo kernel?

Gentoo is all i've ever tried so i'm intrieuged.
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d0nju4n · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject:

I have both nitro and love, and for the most part I use nitro. My uptime is limited only by how long I can go without having to boot into windows. No stability issues that I've seen, but on the other hand the speed increase is very slim between gentoo-dev-sources. I can't comment on vanilla, as I haven't tried it
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supernovus · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:12 pm Post subject:

I've tried many of them, I used Love Sources for a long time. Now I just use gentoo-dev-sources.

Works good enough for me, and so far has been totally stable and supported everything I require.
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Guinpen · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 393

Well, nitro-2.6.10-r4 has been great.. much faster than gentoo-dev (I can feel it with desktop usage, and when I try cedega, it's like Windows vs unoptimized Widnows)... And I've never ever had a stability issue, despite having the latest nitro, GCC 3.4, and a globally enabled ~x86. Bleeding edge hehehe

. The only small problem I had today was when trying to migrate to 2.6.11-r0, but I'll look into it when I have the time - and here comes the main reason I dare do all this: TO LEARN. If it never breaks, I'll never learn how to fix it. It's always the breakages and problems that I sometimes (by now very rarely) come across in Gentoo that enable me to understand Linux so much better; when I was using bloated SuSE / Mandrake some years ago, everything worked, and I couldn't tell the difference between X and KDE

. So the next thing I'll do is migrate to 2.6.11, reiser4, and Gentoo 2005.0 ALL AT ONCE, and fix whatever might break

)

You know what the problem with Windows is? You can't compile it from source, and that makes it sooo boooring...

EDIT: I forgot to thank the Gentoo community - the best one any Linux distribution has. Without you guys I'd still be struggling to install my bootloader or something

uman · Apprentice Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 223

Uhhh Godji yes you can, you can quite easily get a free compiler and compile all the open-source apps you want. It's just not the default, but that's like saying you can't compile from source on Suse.
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feld · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 593 Location: USA

go for the love!

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Arainach · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 609

I've been using nitro sources from 2.6.10 to 2.6.11-rc5 (2.6.11 broke ATI compatibility). Don't tell the nitro developers, but I just emerged the 2.6.11 love sources and I'm giving them a try. I'm not sure yet which I like better.
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gentoo_lan · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:40 am Post subject:

uman · Apprentice Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 223

Well said and very true gentoo_Ian.
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