Marcus Moeller <m.moeller@wrede-online.de> wrote:
> Bill Taggart wrote:

> > Hmm, it just doesn't make sense. I like redhat, we use it at
> > work, but switched back to slack after the newer versions of RH
> > were giving me terrible performance. I run slack on a Pii 300
> > and PIII T40 IBM laptop and it runs great. One time I had a
> > weird issue with X - ran better on RH than slack. I installed
> > both OSe's side by side on the same machine and was able to
> > mount the root disk as a regular partition so I could compare
> > set up and config files. If you have the time that might be the
> > way to go. Just a guess but made its has something to ATA
> > drive?? Do you look at the hdparm settings?

> Hi,

> I?ve tested a lot of disrtos in the past, but I really find slack
> the fastest. It takes about 30 Seconds to boot the bare.i kernel,
> and even KDE starts very fast.

There is _no_ difference in speed between the various
distributions, unless those distributions are setup in different
ways. But if you know anything at all about linux you will have it
setup the way you want and you will find no difference.

cordially, as always,

rm