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jase · Joined: Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:38 pm Posts: 93

Just interested to know.

I have Ubuntu 10.10 and takes almost exactly 60 seconds from turning on the PC, booting up, logging on.

Bazza · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:14 am Post subject:

Why JUST UBUNTU?
Doesn`t anything else exist?

Acer Aspire One.

PCLinuxos 2009.

1 minute 47 seconds to the READY desktop.
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nelz · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:20 am Post subject:

bobthebob1234 · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:02 am Post subject:

Bazza · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 3:44 pm Post subject:

To nelz....

He he, has suspend ever worked?

To bobthebob1234...

Oh yes, you have missed out; YGGDRASIL P'n'P... ;oO

Gulp. You are too young to remember that wondrous OS... :'(
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bobthebob1234 · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 3:52 pm Post subject:

Well I wasn't around in the 9th century so no, I don't remember that wondrous tree (/OS??) Very Happy

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nelz · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 4:42 pm Post subject:

jase · Joined: Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:38 pm Posts: 93

I was asking just about Ubuntu as thats what I currently use. I wanted to know if it was the fastest or if other distros are faster loading up.

nelz · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:13 pm Post subject:

That depends on a lot more than the distro - like the speed of your processor, the speed of your hard drive, the amount and speed of memory, which services you start and plenty more.

I don't worry about boot times as I hardly ever boot my computers.
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:53 pm Post subject:

Ubuntu 10.4 netbook edition takes about 11 seconds on my AA1, and about 6 seconds to shut down Smile

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bobthebob1234 · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:09 pm Post subject:

nelz · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:15 am Post subject:

I use them, but I don't reboot them.

Check your BIOS settings, there is often a setting for a faster POST (I can't check it myself as that would mean rebooting Razz

).

Also check what peripherals you have enabled, it could be wasting time checking for non-existent floppy drives etc.
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demag · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 1:30 am Post subject:

Ubuntu Netbook 10.04 and Peppermint Ice dual boot. Both about the same. 40 secs from hitting the on switch and logging in. 15 secs to shutdown. I can be surfing with Firefox in less than 45 seconds from pressing the on switch.

Hp Mini netbook is about the same surprisingly. My 2.4gig Presario laptop with Xp and up to date takes about 3.5 minutes to fully boot! Laughing

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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 9:23 am Post subject:

Surprised at the difference.
My AA1 is the original linpus model boosted to 1.5Gb and a 16Gb
faster SSD, but my wife's with the original SSD takes about the same time.

I did add a couple of entries to the fstab and grub etc.
can't remember what offhand, but I think it was noatime in fstab entry, and mounting /log and /tmp in ram.
Oh, and adding elevator=noop to grub
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budgieboy · Joined: Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:57 pm Posts: 16

Switch on to desktop in Ubuntu 10.04 about 40-45secs. I've a reasonable system based on AMD dual core Phenom X550.

Fortunately suspend works flawlessly on my system so I very rarely ever reboot, just push on-button and password screen pops up within about 5-6 secs and as soon as I enter password and press enter desktop appears immediately. Marvellous Very Happy