I use Jolicloud on my netbook and it starts up pretty quickly. I believe it was based on ubuntu as well, but it has very narrow support for only specific netbooks, and you have sign up and wait to get invited into the beta for it.
Michael Gorman http://michaeljgorman.com On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Manny <[email protected]> wrote: > Update, > No luck with Linpus... > The image was for the AspireOne netbook only. > > I installed xubuntu in a rush last night and only after I was done did > I realize it was regular xubuntu and not eeexubuntu that has all the > drivers for wifi etc. > > I'm at a coffee shop now and just built the drivers from scratch. I > was impressed that xubuntu had full development tools included. > Too many distros do not even include gcc in the basic install. > > Luckily I had a folder with the madwifi driver source on my sd card. > Took about 10 mins to build, install and connect. > > This version of xubuntu is based on ubuntu 9.04. > Even this seems faster than NBR. > > I'll see if I can optimize it a bit to lower the boot times. I need > to establish a benchmark first. > > Later... > --Manny > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://bit.ly/Gc1sa > > > > This article shows you options to increase the speed with which Linux > > boots, including two options for parallelizing the initialization > > process. It also shows you how to visualize graphically the > > performance of the boot process (ie. bootchart). > > > > chris... > > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:13 PM, John Rivera <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> hmm, it looks very interesting, im installing right now > >>> > >>> You can use bootchart to see where things are taking the most time too, > >>> http://www.bootchart.org/ > >>> http://www.bootchart.org/images/bootchart.png > >>> > >>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:11 AM, John Rivera <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > if you want a fast boot you might want to compile all the programs > >>> >> yourself(including the kernel), linux from scratch and gentoo are > good > >>> >> for > >>> >> that, also ubuntu 9.10(beta) boots much faster than 9.04, even > >>> >> the net-book remix > >>> >> > >>> >> >Most of these recommendations are old school (been around for > awhile) > >>> >> >and as such should be safe. > >>> >> > > >>> >> >Thanks for the article, I know that some distros do some of these > >>> >> >optimizations on their own, but lately I haven't checked. I was > even > >>> >> >thinking about reinstalling the original OS to my EeePC because the > >>> >> >Ubuntu NBR I'm using takes way to long to boot. > >>> >> > > >>> >> >I'm know downloading Linpus Lite to check the performance of that > >>> >> >distro. I'll likely use some of the optimizations in the article > ;-) > >>> >> > > >>> >> >--Manny > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> LinuxUsers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > > -Roger Penrose > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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