Ben Sheron wrote: > Fedora has a lot of stuff added to the kernel; Erm: that's ambiguous. Fedora contains a lot of programs that it runs on top of the kernel. But the Fedora kernel is not heavily patched: see http://people.redhat.com/davej/patchlist-fc3.txt for a full list of what was in a fairly recent update, and note that most of the patches are very small "fix" patches. But it's the programs that run at startup that slow down Linux booting. And a lot of those just aren't found in a typical Windows desktop: there won't be a mail server or proxy server. There probably won't be a network time daemon, web server, or ftp server. There will be a much less versatile firewall. There'll be much less support for network services beyond what Samba provides. Also, Fedora's automatic hardware detection and configuration is better than Windows (and that's saying something: it's one of the areas that Microsoft has really concentrated on). The price is a slightly slower boot as Fedora redetects all the hardware. James. -- E-mail address: james | It wasn't until 1941 that Bournemouth came to the @westexe.demon.co.uk | world's attention, when the course of World War II was | changed for good after the Japanese made the mistake | of bombing Poole Harbour. -- ISIHAC, BBC R4
