Taking this thread... Yesterday I downloaded and installed blender from fedora.mplug.org. When the process finished, I started it, of course ;). For my surprise, this application toke 1 or less seconds to startup! ( Really amazing, take in mind that this program was created for 3D modelling, rendering,animation, post-production... ) and all the actions are very, very fast. It hasn't gnome/kde or others managed windows, and I'm asking if applications not based in gtk or qt runs more faster... Well, try blender, only to see what i mean. Need glut-devel, and it's running in my RH9. Waiting your comments, David,