boot time

Debian Administration: "Inspired by this work, and because I have the same laptop, I decided to try to reproduce their results.

So far I have not come very close to their 5 seconds, but I have made some significant improvements compared to the default boot time for Debian on that machine; this article describes what I've done."

Debian-Administration.org has made an attempt to reproduce the five-second Linux boot experiment using Debian.

"Inspired by this work, and because I have the same laptop, I decided to try to reproduce their results. So far I have not come very close to their 5 seconds, but I have made some significant improvements compared to the default boot time for Debian on that machine; this article describes what I've done."

Boot time may not be a problem for the small proportion of people who use a Mac or Linux and are used to rapid cold boot and near-instant PC resume, but for the rest of the world that uses Windows, its sluggish ...

Would you like to analyze the boot time of your Ubuntu box? Nothing could be easier, simply install by synaptic or apt-get package bootchart and restart the PC.

The graphic detail of your boot will be included in the directory /var/log/bootchart.

Linux publisher Mandriva has released its latest distribution, Mandriva Linux 2009, offering a faster boot time and up-to-date versions of tools such as KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice and Firefox, plus an installer that optimises the platform for mini-laptops.

Linux publisher Mandriva has released its latest distribution, Mandriva Linux 2009 , offering a faster boot time and up-to-date versions of tools such as KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice and Firefox, plus an installer ...

Researchers at the Linux Plumbers Conference managed to trim the boot time for an SSD Eee PC from around 45 seconds down to a mere five seconds.

Frederic Crozat blog: "We have just just released Mandriva Linux 2009 RC2 (with GNOME 2.24 final version, among new features ;), as well as reduce boot time on a lot of systems.

I thought it would be interesting to explain the various things we tried to save some seconds when booting, since it is a hot topic these days, with impressive results from various people"

Mandriva's Frederic Crozat has a blog entry describing their efforts to reduce Linux boot time.

With the Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) still some seven weeks away, the Ubuntu team, through the voice/writing of Mark Shuttleworth, has announced its plans for Ubuntu 9.04 aka Jaunty Jackalope.

Expected to ship in April, the next, next Linux operating system is planned to improve boot time and feature a better integration of web-based applications.