Lewi wrote: > but what's the big difference between those beta linux, > in the perfomance area, I notice that shrike is more slower than taroon > (I just looked with hdparm and loading time mozilla and openoffice) Taroon is RH Enterprise Linux and it has a *lot of kernel* patches not present into RH Linux like 2.6 backports, better VM(rmap), updated drivers, stable TCP_NFS, ACL, TuX,.... -- S moking C rack O ften