"Someone" might take a look at the Kubuntu install

[Rex Dieter]

Ed Greshko wrote:

> On 06/14/15 06:45, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> David Cary Hart wrote:
>>
>>>  their KDE spin takes less than half the tim
>> Considering fedora's live install is not much more than dd'ing the live
>> iso directly to disk, I find it interesting that some other method could
>> be over twice as fast.
>>
> 
> Guess what?  It isn't.
> 
> I decided to compare installing the F22 Live to disk and Kubuntu 15.04 to
> disk.  Of course the comparison cannot be 100% equal since there are going
> to be differences in the number and size of packages installed.  That
> said, the downloaded sizes of the iso are fairly similar and take nearly
> the same time to download.
> 
> 1312456704 Jun 14 16:16 kubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> 1233125376 May 22 03:12 Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-22-3.iso
> 
> The total time from start to completion of the "install to disk" process
> in minutes is...
> 
> 07:19     kubutu
> 08:40     F22
> 
> I suspect part of the additional time needed for the install is due to
> Fedora having selinux and the time needed to apply the contexts.  So,
> really not much time difference IMO.
> 
> Now, what really interested me is that during the install of kubuntu I
> checked the box saying to "apply updates during install" and indeed there
> was network activity and notifications that files were being downloaded. 
> However, after booting and logging in the system soon reported there were
> 238 packages needing updates and that took just over 7 minutes to
> complete.
> 
> Fedora reported 391 packages to be updated and the time needed to install
> was 12:32.  Again, not a valid comparison due to the unknown of package
> size and other factors.  Fedora had about 64% more packages to be updated.
>  If you increase the time used by kubuntu by 64% you get 688 seconds for
> kubutu and 752 for Fedora.  Pretty close.
> 
> FWIW, I wasn't happy with one aspect of kubuntu install.  kubuntu uses
> your timezone information to set the created user's locale while Fedora
> uses the language you pick at install.  So, with Fedora I was set up with
> a US locale and with kubuntu I was set up a Taiwan locale.
> 
> All in all, the install experience for me are pretty much the same.

Interesting findings, thanks!

-- Rex