Fedora Core 2 test3 on an IBM ThinkPad X31

Last night I installed the latest Fedora Core on my laptop, and I must say that after a day of using it I'm very pleased. Everything about it is more responsive. It boots faster than the last release. Having massive amounts of text scrolling across a terminal window no longer pegs my CPU. Mozilla renders complex web pages faster. It's all just so... fast. Granted, most of what I'm observing is probably due to the move from Linux kernel 2.4 to 2.6, which IIRC has a much better scheduler and is finally preemptible. But it feels almost as if someone snuck into my apartment last night and gave me a faster laptop.

Now I've got boatloads of compiling to do, and that will end up benchmarking a whole different aspect of the system's performace. We'll see how that works out.