Live CD SLOooooowww

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Just found this via digg.  May be of interest concerning this topic.

http://www.frozentech.com/?p=12

This article will provide an overview of the boot speeds of nine
popular LiveCDs in several different configurations.

LiveCD  	Desktop  	 Time (min:sec)
SLAX 5.0.5 	Fluxbox 	0:58
SLAX 5.0.5 	KDE 	1:29
Damn Small Linux 1.0.1 	Fluxbox 	x
Damn Small Linux 1.2 	Fluxbox 	x
PCLinuxOS p81A 	KDE 	2:22
Ubuntu 5.04 	Gnome 	3:41
Knoppix 3.8.1 	KDE 	2:08
Knoppix 3.9 	KDE 	2:07
Kanotix 2005-02 	KDE 	2:16
Kanotix 2005-03 	KDE 	1:54
SimplyMEPIS 3.3 	KDE 	4:10
Gentoo 2005.0 	BASH 	1:07
GoblinX 1.1 	KDE 	1:48

Conclusion:
SLAX was the quickest booting in these tests, into both Fluxbox and
KDE. All the KDE and Gnome LiveCDs that could not boot on that laptop
had no problems with a full gig of ram to work with. Ubuntu and
SimplyMEPIS stood out by taking the longest to boot. Both took a full
minute over the next slowest, and over two minutes longer than booting
SLAX into KDE.

Disclaimer:
This test is far from scientific and is mainly for fun.

http://www.frozentech.com/?p=12