Speed?

[Dennis Myhand]

One thing I have noticed is that Ubuntu seems to be about 25% faster
than the other distro I was using.  I notice this in using \seti at home\.
Under Debian I averaged about 19 hours per work unit on a P-II 450MHz
with 512 Megs of RAM.  Using Ubuntu I seem to finish a unit in about 14
hours.  I would say this is significant although I do not know why.  Is
this because Kernel 2.6 is more efficient?