Foo - Rhel

A friend of mine gave me Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD's to use when Fedora Core 5 would not install on my computer.
Well I have found it to be more or less the same thing as Fedora Core 4 (coming from a newb though), so what differs when it comes to performance?
I am tempted to try FC5 again, plus I think it has KDE on it and KDE is better eye candy than Gnome :)

RHEL is supposed to be "optimized" for better performance.

I personally don't follow that as I have been privy to day in and day out hearing about people's perfect linux desktops crash daily, oftgen times 3-4 times a day. One of the persons here who is a staunch anti-ms fan seems to have his system die several times a day :p

different kernel, and rhel doesnt use as many bleeding edge sources that FC5 does, performance wise you shouldnt see any difference really

as far as desktop environments or window managers, again its meaningless, you can any of the more than a dozen of them on ANY distro.........linux lets you do whatever you want with no restrictions

RHEL is supposed to be "optimized" for better performance.

I personally don't follow that as I have been privy to day in and day out hearing about people's perfect linux desktops crash daily, oftgen times 3-4 times a day. One of the persons here who is a staunch anti-ms fan seems to have his system die several times a day :p

probably someone who knows not what they are doing, I havent had that problem in ages, uptime is showing a year and a half on one machine and 9 months on the other

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want to "optimize" your system, then compile everything from scratch and more importantly use the right software and hardware for the task

:P if you ask him he knows what he is doing, and is a super advanced user . One of course who didnt know that Windows has had Group based security policy for 3/4+ decade, but never the less claims to be a super user, and acts it too :p

hmm trhat's extremely odd.