Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > That's kind of ironic, because I did a fresh install of Red Hat 8 (I was > running Red Hat 7.3) and I noticed an increase of performance in a few > areas, among them, under 7.3, almost every application opened really > slow (I noticed this before I installed 8.0), but now, apps open up a > lot quicker :) If you're using KDE...I recall a web page about it saying that in the then-current version things were linked such that apps started slowly, but that would be fixed. Perhaps that is part of what makes apps open up quicker--though I seem to notice greater speed even when I'm using GNOME. (Purely a subjective feeling so far, without numbers to back it up.) James Jones