Gutsy speed

[Derek Broughton]

Loïc Martin wrote:

> Bruce Marshall a écrit :
>> On Thursday 06 December 2007, Stefano Menegazzi wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> i was wondering about incresing ubuntu boot speed...
>>> right now it takes much time to get ready, is there any
>>> trick to make it faster?
>> 
>> Can I ask why you are booting so much that it would really make a
>> difference?
>> 
> 
> Gutsy broke hibernate/suspend both on my laptop and my desktop, and I
> don't like to leave them on all day for the same reasons I wouldn't like
> driving a SUV.
> 
> With an average of 15 boots a days, 1' saved off a 1'50 boot would mean
> 15 mn of free time everyday (you can do a lot in 15 mn).

I'm not sure you can do much in that 15 minutes that you couldn't have done
waiting for it to boot, but I'd really want to fix the hibernate problem
first.  I can't imagine gutsy could have broken it so badly that it can't
be made to work (and if it _did_, I'd be back to Feisty in a moment).

> And when 
> somebody is on the phone and I need to start the computer to give them
> an answer, I'm not so happy having to explain the 1'50 boot + 15sec to
> desktop + 5 sec Nautilus boot + 10 sec OOfice startup are due to me
> using Ubuntu and not a decent distro or Windows XP.

A fair argument, except that Vista takes much longer to boot than Ubuntu,
for me, on the same machine (and I don't even have any services installed
on Windows) and on my older machine, XP takes a _little_ longer than
Ubuntu.
-- 
derek