Jamie's Random Musings
Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Linux, Windows XP and Widows Vista, and assorted bits of hardware new and old.
Monday 23 March 2009, 12:53 PM
Linux Distributions Reducing Boot Time
Those who want or need faster boot times should be happy with some of the upcoming Linux distributions. For purposes of this discussion, I consider "boot" time to be the elapsed time from when I press return in the GRUB boot menu, until a login window appears and is usable. The time is measured with a wall clock; precision is not my goal here, the general user feeling is.
On my laptop computers, most of the current distributions take about one minute, plus or minus 5 seconds, to boot; a couple of them take somewhat longer than that. However, the current test releases of Ubuntu (9.04 Alpha 6) and Mandriva (2009.1 RC1) both boot in about 30 seconds! That's a dramatic improvement.
So, at the end of April when these distributions are released, there are likely to be quite a few very happy people around.
jw 23/3/2009
On my laptop computers, most of the current distributions take about one minute, plus or minus 5 seconds, to boot; a couple of them take somewhat longer than that. However, the current test releases of Ubuntu (9.04 Alpha 6) and Mandriva (2009.1 RC1) both boot in about 30 seconds! That's a dramatic improvement.
So, at the end of April when these distributions are released, there are likely to be quite a few very happy people around.
jw 23/3/2009
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Improved boot times will be very welcome. I had noticed that boot times had been increasing quite significantly over the last couple of years, thus tending to loose that particular competitive edge.
Let us hope that the next round of new distributions really do address this and improve boot times significantly.
