Linked by Aki Kolehmainen on Tue 29th Apr 2003 03:30 UTC
This is a desktop comparison of Red Hat Linux 9 and SuSE 8.2 Professional Edition. We have used Red Hat Linux 8 for all our work since last fall, and installed version 9 as soon as it became available. However, we have not been fully content with Red Hat, so we gave SuSE 8.2 a try when it became available this month.
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Well you're right it is a "desktop comparison". Maybe it is because English is not my mother language, but for me it is the same. He is comparing and thus reviewing two systems.
But about slowness under Red Hat with gnome (or gnome by it self) Take a look in the forums of the distro where I'm more home to, Gentoo (htp://forums.gentoo.org topic Desktop) and see for yourself, the problems we're facing with linux and DE's. There are hundreds of posts in there, some claiming KDE is slow while Gome is fast and visa versa and it becomes obvious that the speed problem is something different then the way Gnome or KDE are structured. Someone who claimed that he has installed and worked with many systems running Red Hat should have seen this problem many times and would have come to the conclusion that something isn't right and it ain't Gnome's fault (I've seen the same behaviour on Mandrake, Gentoo and Suse by the way). But this comparison is just a simple let SUSE and KDE shine article without critical note.
If he wrote this article by just installing Suse ones on a machine while using Red Hat many times on different machines, then he should be ashamed by himself, because he then knows as well as I that the one faultless installation could've been a lucky shot, everything was right for that distro at that moment. I've had many problems with SUSE and a not so faultless installation let you see how well a distro solves problems that you can expect in a working environment where you can't depend on lucky one shots. Again this "comparison" is a fanboy writing of some biased person
Two clear causes stand out for Gnome.
1) Some nvidia drivers can make Gnome crawl. The problem seems to get solved with the newest drivers.
2) If nameresolving isn't done right the the startup of gnome applications can become extremely slow. Solution add the hostname to the localhost line in /etc/hosts.