Startup Time (Was: Re: What do you like best about Ubuntu?)

[Jonathan Byrne]

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 04:41 pm, Daniel Borgmann wrote:

> Have you timed this? Because it would be very encouraging... I timed
> the startup times (Grub to loaded desktop with auto login) of FC2,
> Ubuntu and Win XP. My results are: FC2 68 seconds, Ubuntu 52 seconds,
> Windows 30 seconds. 

If you have a spare partition sitting around, try Yoper.  It's boot 
times are amazing.  I'd heard Yoper could boot even faster than Gentoo, 
and since I was dabbling in various distros at the time, I tried it.  
It did seem slightly faster, too.  Yoper pre-links seemingly everything 
under the sun and it pays off in speed.  That could be something for 
Ubuntu to possibly look at.

Yoper itself is a pretty good distro and the speed is breathtaking.  The 
only reason I chucked it was it's RPM-based and uses apt-rpm.  While 
that's a pretty good tool and really improves the functionality of an 
RPM-based system, it's still not as good as a Debian-based system.   To 
Yoper's credit, I only realized  it was an RPM-based system when I 
tried to use dpkg a day or so after installing it :-p  I'd read that it 
used apt (apt-rpm wasn't mentioned) and took that to mean it was 
Debian-based.  No such luck :-p

But I'm glad, really, because then Ubuntu came along.  Debian (usually 
Sid) has been my distro of choice for a good while, but now it's 
Ubuntu.  I don't plan to wipe Sid off my home desktop or Sarge off my 
Thinkpad, but if I were doing a from-scratch install, it would 
definitely be Ubuntu, which I'm using at work.

Jonathan
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