Nitro was very good (performance and stability wise), but I could'nt stand having to wait around 5min everytime I wanted to switch between kde/gnome/xfce/fluxbox or just simply quit X.
Edit:
btw, you're running on nvidia right?
To my surprise it wasn't patched with the fbsplash patch so i'm wondering:
where can I download a compatible fbsplash/vesafb-tng patch?
The latest versions on the site is:
vesafb-tng-0.9-rc6-2.6.11-rc1.patch
fbsplash-0.9.2-2.6.12-rc1.patch
and i'm guessing they arent compatible?
(im using linux-2.6.11-mm4 now)