Lee Revell wrote:
I do understand Red Hat's motivations - I have to
admit I was pretty
impressed at how good FC1 looked the first time I saw it, so much so
that it took me a while to realize how much performance they had to give
up. That was the first Linux distro that made me thing 'this could
replace windows for 99% of what people do'. Correctly designed software
will always be significantly slower than the equivalent hack job
(Windows).
I beg to differ. A good design lets you replace inefficient algorithms
and components quickly and cleanly after profiling.
Chris