Linked by Anthony Hicks on Tue 8th Apr 2003 16:17 UTC
This (quite long) article has been written by me for two primary reasons: One, to hopefully save someone else the time and hassle associated with trying out various Linux distributions, and two, to promote some discussion and feedback regarding what a modern Linux distribution should be, and of course to contrast this with what is currently available. I am exploring the offerings of MS Windows, BeOS and MacOSX, and then taking on a number of well-known Linux distributions.
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The author seems to be very pleased with the speed of Slackware-based distributions. I remember when I used slackware a while ago and it seemed a little faster to me too (compared to Redhat and the others). Is there a special reason for this? Maybe less bloat installed? With all the effort spent by Redhat on kernel development, I would expect it to be the fastest distribution around...