Thanks for the explanation. After I pondered your first reply for a while I did get the drift of it. Thanks
a live cd like mandrake move or knopptix reads from the cd and creates a virtual drive in the ram of your computer, the reading from the cd takes much longer than reading the same information from the hard drive. that said, once the information is read from the cd into the ram drive, from that point forward, that information that is in the ram drive is read much quicker than if it had to be read from the CD or the hard drive. (an 'installed' distro does this also with cached ram, and reads from the hard drive)
if you had a computer with about 2 or 3 gigs of ram, and only booted from the cd, not rebooting for a long time again, the CD version might even seem faster than an installed version. but for most operations, a hard drive installed distro is the fastest operation choice
Rosemary
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