[PyMOL] best linux distribution to run pymol

Dear all,

We have two molecular modeling PCs with 3D emitters (and CRT monitors). 
One runs the linux distribution Redhat (Gnome) and the other one Suse 
(KDE). It seems to us that the one running Suse/KDE is much faster than 
the one running Redhat/Gnome. Faster in the sense of rotating big 
surface rendered hexamers, 60mers. These are equivalent machines with 
one year old Athlon64, 4GB RAM and Nvidia Fx1400 graphic cards. 
(unfortunately i cannot switch to Suse since i cannot get 
Insight/Discovery Studio to run under Suse).

I do not want to start a linux distribution war but we are curious under 
which distribution pymol is developed/tested and what people generally 
are using to run pymol (with 3D capability!)??
Thanks a lot for the info.

Best wishes,

Joris Beld

Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
Switzerland