ubuntu/kubuntu is sloooooooow!

[Nils Kassube]

metin wrote:
> Ubuntu and derivatives are slow when compared with archlinux, pardus,
> fedora and even debian proper.
> I think it is really annoying for an OS otherwise very nice.

How do you compare the speed of different distributions? Is it the boot 
time, the time needed to start applications or the time specific 
applications need to complete specific tasks?


Nils