Lee Revell wrote: > I do understand Red Hat's motivations - I have to admit I was pretty > impressed at how good FC1 looked the first time I saw it, so much so > that it took me a while to realize how much performance they had to give > up. That was the first Linux distro that made me thing 'this could > replace windows for 99% of what people do'. Correctly designed software > will always be significantly slower than the equivalent hack job > (Windows). I beg to differ. A good design lets you replace inefficient algorithms and components quickly and cleanly after profiling. Chris