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Hello all,

Recently I had an opportunity to make up a live CD for a friend who is curious 
about Linux but is nervous about losing his current investment in programs 
and data, the usual concerns. I didn't want a very geeky distro even though I 
use FC5 myself, so I downloaded Ubuntu and burned the .iso for him. I booted 
the CD to check it out for a good burn and because I haven't looked at Ubuntu 
for a while and was just curious.

I use FC5 as a standard desktop user, word processing, email, web browsing, 
some streaming audio, nothing special. One thing I was immediately struck by 
was the big difference in speed running off the CD. OpenOffice Writer loaded 
about two times faster from the Live CD than from my hard drive (a 120 gig 
Samsung IDE) after a fresh boot and about a two second load time for 
subsequent starts. This was consistent over several system reboots. Likewise 
for Firefox 1.5, probably the live CD is two or three times faster loading 
from CD than from my hard drive. I didn't run into any noticeable limits on 
number of windows open or general responsiveness, just faster operation.

Why is Fedora slower? Is there some erason why the design improvements in 
Ubuntu can't be incorporated into FC7? Is there work underway to do this?

My system is trés ordinaire, I'd say, and ASUS A8N-VM mobo with on-board 
graphics, 3 gigs of DDR2 333 and the Samsung IDE drive. Odd, eh?

Dave

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