{"id":121,"date":"2007-11-12T16:20:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T16:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/12\/when-geeks-dont-have-enough-to\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T16:20:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T16:20:01","slug":"when-geeks-dont-have-enough-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/when-geeks-dont-have-enough-to\/","title":{"rendered":"When Geeks Don&#8217;t Have Enough To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was very interested in reading an on line article comparing two Linux distributions, Ubuntu (the one I use) and Fedora (a very different distribution that I used to use).  Hey, any article with a sexy title like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=article&#038;item=912&#038;num=1\">&#8220;Ubuntu 7.10 &#038; Fedora 8 Performance Compared&#8221;<\/a> is not going to fail to get your interest, right?Well, it turns out that the results of this difference are rather astounding:<!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-9c791b4cffc4ce187a36eb10763d1666-02.png?w=604\" alt=\"i-9c791b4cffc4ce187a36eb10763d1666-02.png\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Jesus&#8217; tits, Margaret, they&#8217;re identical!The article has several other graphs that show exactly the same thing.  Well, I suppose if this was downhill skiing or something, we could get legitimately excited about a difference of several hundreds of a percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very interested in reading an on line article comparing two Linux distributions, Ubuntu (the one I use) and Fedora (a very different distribution that I used to use). Hey, any article with a sexy title like &#8220;Ubuntu 7.10 &#038; Fedora 8 Performance Compared&#8221; is not going to fail to get your interest, right?Well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/when-geeks-dont-have-enough-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Geeks Don&#8217;t Have Enough To Do<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}