<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body> Chris and others, I can't measure window desktop response time, but It seems to be faster than original packages. I'm sorry, I know this is subjective. But graphical desktop seems run faster on my athlon-xp when I've rebuild X and KDE. Also memory consuming is much fewer with rebuilded custom kernel than original (or atrpms) one. System is more fresh I think. But I have no numbers, sorry. Give it a try ... michal Chris Adams wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20040323165745.GF1388044@hiwaay.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Once upon a time, Michal Zeravik <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:michalz@olomouc.com"><michalz@olomouc.com></a> said: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Yes, lots of people have tried. There is no real benefit in most cases. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">What? Are you kidding? I've recompiled X, KDE and It's damn fast. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Please give hard numbers. Every time someone has said this, they've never been able to back it up with numbers (while others who have investigated it have shown little measurable performance difference). </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>