I'm just reading Mad Penguin's preview/review of the next Ubuntu http://madpenguin.org/cms/index.php/?m=show&id=6699&page=1 On page two, he throws out the comment: Performance with this release was very good. It's been a while since I reviewed Ubuntu 5.10, but it feels faster to me. Call me crazy. It definitely outperformed Fedora Core 5 on the same machine. Hands down. Not a very analytical statement. Does anyone know if this is true? If so, why? (BTW, I found the excitement of the reviewer nice, but the content was not very useful to me.)