Wherever you consider New Zealand to be, Yoper is the fastest Linux. Why is that?

0.) Performance patches from Con Kolivas, i686 2.6.7 kernel, reiserfs
1.) All original sources, minimal patches.
2.) Compiled with i686 against latest gcc
3.) Stripping
4.) Prelinking
5.) Latest gcc and glibc and other sources
6.) Keep everything only dependent to what it really needs not what the ./configure happens to find.
7.) Hdparm on install

There's also a German language forum site here. How fast is it? Here are the boot time benchmarks for boot time for Yoper versus other distros:

0.  Yoper V2,(Prefinal) BT=.56
1.  Linspire BT=1.48
2.  Suse9.0 BT=2.15
3.  Suse9.1 BT=1.4
4.  DEB_3r2BT=1.21
5.  FedoraC2BT=2.18
6.  Xandros BT=1.46
7.  Slackware10 BT=1.07
8.  Aurox9.4 BT=1.46
9.  Conectiva10 BT=1.10
10. BLAG BT=1.56
11. Overclockix BT=2.1
12. Munjoy BT=2.13
13. LBA BT=1.32
14. Lorma5 BT=1.40
15. Onebase1.4 BT=2.04
16  PeanutPro BT=1.37
17  Mandrake10 BT=1.41
18  Knoppix3.4 BT=1.53
19. PCLinux2k4 BT=1.43
20. Mepis BT=1.31
21. Asp. BT=1.31
22. ArkH2o BT=1.43

Test Platform: IBM T-40 2373-72u / Pentium M class x86 / 768 mb DDR memory
Test Environment : Full use of Disk, 1 Gb Swap

The most depressing thing for me was to see that the version I currently use (SuSE 9.0) is a turtle. See ya, I'm off to download the ISO....