Speed of linux

[John Wilkinson <john wilkinson soton sc philips com>]

Hi all,
I did ask a similar question the other day. It is sad that Linux is not
at least as fast as W95.
If we are all so certain that it is the X windows stuff that is the
cause, this implies that the text screen in Linux is much much faster
than DOS. I would be interested to see some comparisons if any one has
done this in the past.

Also,  do we know if products like accelerated X or Metro are any faster
than XFree86? I run metro but this seems just as fast as XFree.

Any views?

Regards,
John.