On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 13:47 +1300, edward@murrell.co.nz wrote: [...] > gains, It shouldn't make that much difference. Things like GNOME and > Nautilus start somewhere in the order of 10 to 15 times faster than on my > machine at home. gnome/nautilus startup speed is often affected by incorrect configuration of your hostname. check that the name returned by "hostname" is properly accounted for in /etc/hosts -Mark