speed of FC5 vs next Ubuntu

[Carroll Grigsby]

Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh at mimosa.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Not a very analytical statement.  Does anyone know if this is true?
>>If so, why?
> 
> 
> One question that comes to mind is this: Does Ubuntu support SELinux? If
> yes, was it enabled? If no, did they turn it off in FC5 too?
> 
> I have read that FC5 is noticeably slower with SELinux enabled than with
> SELinux disabled, almost to the point that the speed improvement in Gnome
> 2.14 is wholly consumed by SELinux. I have SELinux disabled on my home
> computer, and it is much faster than FC4 (also with SELinux
> disabled). Login from GDM to a usable Gnome desktop takes about two
> seconds, and starting Firefox takes less than one second.
> 
> Regards
> Ingemar

Ingemar:
Ubuntu does _not_ do SELinux, which may well explain why traffic on 
their list is about 60 per cent of the traffic here.
-- cmg