Draft: Gutsy beta release announcement

[Dougie Richardson]

Hi Matt

> I'm surprised both that you feel boot time is one of the biggest 
> complaints
> among users, and that you feel this has changed substantially in 7.10. 
> Can
> you expand on those premises?

Biggest complaint: it's often stated in comparison articles, I believe it 
was in the recent Mossberg article, although I could be wrong. It comes up 
quite frequently in the forums and there are numerous howtos concerning 
improving boot times on 7.04. Granted this may be more of a laptop issue,

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=62230
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tag/feisty-slow-fix/
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/2485
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2007/04/yesterdays-update-slow-boot.html
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2114124,00.asp
http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=531989

Changed substantially: 7.10 is at least twice as fast as 7.04 is to install 
and brings up GDM on boot around a minute faster than Fiesty, on my laptop 
and desktop.

Dougie Richardson
dougie at lynxworks.eu
http://blog.lynxworks.eu/