Liquorix Kernal

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Having seen a reference to the liquorix kernel here:

How to install kernel Liquorix

I just wondered, on my old, low-resource 32-bit hardware, is liquorix likely to run demonstrably faster than the regular antiX kernels?

Thanks in anticipation.
Alan

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alpage2 wrote:

Having seen a reference to the liquorix kernel here:

How to install kernel Liquorix

I just wondered, on my old, low-resource 32-bit hardware, is liquorix likely to run demonstrably faster than the regular antiX kernels?

Thanks in anticipation.
Alan

Not necessarily; I’ve found that the Liquorix kernels are very well optimized for interactive and general use.
What I noticed is that Liquorix tends to have a pretty good “cache” to speed operation; that’s fine unless your system is memory constrained.
AntiX kernels are designed to be lean; they are reasonably fast because they tend to be moderate in size, definitely smaller images than general purpose server images like those in Debian. All of them are good kernels; Debian’s is better for server loads, Liquorix is better for fast interactive loads and antiX is better for resource conservation.

If your system is not resource constrained, you’ll be able to use any of these kernels and they’ll all do a good job.
I did a short, very informal review of these kernels in the past year; I did not witness much practical difference in performance between the three, but looking at the modules and the other configuration specifications, I made the generalizations above regarding the workloads they are optimzed for: Debian (server), antiX (old, small, lean), Liquorix (fast interactive).

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Thanks, Brian – that’s very helpful. My old winXP and Vista machines are resource constrained, so I think I’ll stick with the antiX kernels.

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::Thanks, Brian – that’s very helpful. My old winXP and Vista machines are resource constrained, so I think I’ll stick with the antiX kernels.

Alan

They MAY work, but unless you want to experiment with both, I agree with you; the antiX kernels are specifically built for this kind of environment.

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