[ale] Debian's speed

[Brandon Colbert]

Jerald Sheets wrote:

>Debian craps its pants every time I try and put it on my laptop, so I
>gave up ad went Fedora.  I just upped to FC3 Final yesterday, and WOW!!!
>is it faster or what?
>
>I can't believe how much faster it is than FC2.  Any guesses as to why?
>
>--Jerald
>
>
>On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 11:58 -0500, Brandon Colbert wrote:
>  
>
>>Wow!! Debian is faster than Mandrake/Redhat/Fedora. It is great for low 
>>memory machines. I'm switching.
>>
>>Thanks dudes! I will order the book today.
>>
>>    
>>
Running X in Mandrake/Fedora/Redhat used all the physical memory (128 mb)
According to my second install of debian, it only used 75% of the 
physical memory. But then again, I'm new to Debian. I have used Redhat 
and Mandrake for two plus years.

I am downloading Fedora Core 3 right now.

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