UDS Karmic Goals

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On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 07:34 -0500, Jim Campbell wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
> <jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>         Hi Cody
>         
>         Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:
>         >    1. Develop 2-3 specifications that are concrete enough to
>         implement
>         >       within the next cycle.
>         >    2. Discuss and spec out improvements to notifications.
>         >    3. Identify and possibly fix the login delay issue.
>         >    4. Examine memory usage of default Xubuntu desktop.
>         Compare w/ Debian
>         >       to see where we can reduce our footprint.
>         
>         >    5. Assist Xfce in developing release policy, procedures;
>         release
>         >       management; finer project definition; etc. Come up
>         with draft to
>         >       send to xfce-dev mailing list for further discussion
>         and development.
>         
>         >    6. Improvements to documentation, artwork, and community.
>         
>         Someone said yesterday that you guys managed to boot Xubuntu
>         Karmic
>         Alpha in 8.5 seconds, is that true? If so, awesome :)
>         
>         -Jonathan
> 
> :-) Well, from what I know, it was Scott James Remnant who booted
> Ubuntu with an Xfce desktop in 8.5 seconds. I guess that's Xubuntu,
> right? Almost?  :-)  
> 
> I'm sure Cody, Jannis, and Stephan will get it down to 7.32.  :)
> 
> Jim

The big question is what kind of rig was used for this 8.5 second boot?
Get a P III with 512 MB to boot in under 10 seconds, and then I'll be
impressed

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