[CS-FSLUG] Still a "cult leader"

[Timothy Butler]

>
> Puppy is also much quicker and vastly smaller.
>
> I am guessing that all of the code-heavy distros
> are slower, e.g. Mandrake, Linspire, etc.

	It depends  lot on the optimizations and such, since you can run the  
same D.E.'s on any of them. Mandrake was always pretty snappy since  
everything was compiled with 586 optimizations back when that was  
still a gee-whiz kind of feature. SUSE never seemed that slow to me,  
other than YaST, which was extremely slow since it insisted on  
running a bunch of completely unrelated configuration scripts  
whenever one changed anything.

	Pretty much any distro can be snappy if you switch to a minimalist WM.

	Ubuntu seems to me to be the best of the bunch at the moment,  
offering a distro that follows GNOME's aesthetically pleasing simple  
and clean ideology combined with the beauty of Debian. It also is the  
closest in design, IMO, to Mac OS X, which is the goal *nix should  
aim for, IMO.

	-Tim




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