On 8/23/05, Winelfred G. Pasamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> how fast does your desktop linux completely boot? completely boot
> meaning until the harddisk stops reading and ur pc waits for events in
> the gui. pls include significant hardware specs like distro, distro
> version, cpu ghz, cpu cache, ram, harddisk rpm, pc/laptop model...
>
> i'm just impressed with puppy linux 1.04 harddisk installed: 21
> seconds in an r50e thinkpad (1.3ghz, 64kb cache {some r50e's have
> 512kb or 1mb}, 256mb ram
>
> and i'm even more impressed when it boot'ed 41 seconds on a 200mhz,
> 64mb ram, 2gb hd old ibm pc from HMR. and top says there's ~20m of
> unused RAM!
Boxen specs -> http://www.myjavaserver.com/~butiki/linux/boxen.html#butiki
When butiki was on Slak, it would boot up in ~30secs; on Ubuntu, it
would boot up in slightly >60secs (I lost the timings I did some time
back, I'll probably do another timing test)
Of course, this is considering I run ratpoison as my window manager... :D
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