>> Is it me, or is this Beta2 snappier than RH9 ?
>
> Not just you.
> I've noticed it too.
>
me too - which makes me happy coz rh9 is a bit of a slugger on my machine.
Any information on what may be behind the performance improvements?
Smaller binaries (hence less disk I/O)?
More efficient app init (esp GNOME/KDE)?
Memory footprint reduction?
Compiler changes?
(insert other blind guesses here)
I'm interested, as much as anything to know whether it actually affects
me (long-time XFCE4 user, don't like GNOME/KDE).
Craig Ringer