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I must say that RH 7.3 is impressive and with sampling Gnome, which is really nice, it is certainly a vast performance increase on the same machine which previously housed SuSe and KDE! Gnome seems to me quite slick with some nice default features.
Anyway, thanks for your time.
Jamie
Stowmarket :(
I get confused by these speed differences between distro's.
I have one SuSE machine here (1Ghz AMD) and one at a clients (PIII 500) and both of those are snappy machines, random Linux users have walked up to the work machine and asked how I got it so responsive (some of those people are sitting on machines with twice the clock speed)
Also I always thought that if anything KDE was slightly more responsive than Gnome.
Unneeded service installations aside, should there really be that much difference between different distributions anyway. I know some complie their packages with Pentium optimisations and others not, but no-one really does any heavy optimisation on the kernel do they ?
Or is it just things like default themes that are making all the difference ?