>You may remember about two months ago I started a flame war asking why RPM >packages were still optimized for 386. The best answer I heard said that >the powers-that-be do not believe there would be a noticeable improvement, >and if I wanted to affect real change I would need to prove them wrong. >So I've set out to do just that. <snip> > I'm being charged a premium for bandwidth, so please download only the > packages you have installed. A yum repo would be nice... Also quantifiable *reproducabile* benchmark testing would go a long way towards showing whether or not actual rather than perceived performance improvements have in fact been made. -- Bests, Jon