That hasn't been my experience. It seems that the Redhat/Fedoras have been getting excruciatingly slow of late. Even on a previously useful machine (PII-450, 256MB) with everything off (including X), it runs like molassas. It's not just the kernel either, since I've rolled my own vanilla kernel. Maybe it's in the optimizations of how it's compiled for newer machines.Fedora Core 3 is plenty fast. Changing a distribution entirely does not a faster machine make. Disable all services you don't need, switch to a very lightweight window manager, etc., and the performance difference between FC3 and any other distro is typically marginal at best.
Slap an old RH8-9 or recent ubuntu on it, and it rolls along nicely.
-Cory
************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * *************************************************************************
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