"Andreas Girardet"
In general however I wonder why on the same system Yoper or Gentoo just feels that much faster than SuSE or certainly much faster than RedHat? It certainly is a very subjective "feeling" but one that is confirmed by many others. Also people switching to NLD from Windows within Novell notice the speedloss that comes with it. They say NLD is just that much slower than Windows. One of the reasons I decided to do Yoper in first place was to make a Desktop just as snappy as windows as it just is not the case on a normal setup. Maybe the Con Kolivas patches and prelinking speed things up enough to get by.
Prelinking is supported by SUSE Linux and I would give it a try. What are the Con Kolivas patches? Can you post a URL?
Just wondering from experience with thousands of people's feedback, why if it is true what you say,many people claim that some distro's are faster than others?
Maybe I should just bag this effort and concentrate on adding additional packages and debugging..... but I am not totally convinced yet ;) and I do miss that snappiness that I was used to for all those years I ran my own compiled Linux. Maybe you can shed some more technical detail as I do lack the knowledge to fully understand the issues. Am not a programmer after all.
One think is that features slowdown the system. We need to have an universal system that does everything - and therefore is overdesigned for a lot of cases. If anybody comes up with some great ideas on how to improve performance, let's test those and integrate them where possible, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126