<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/2 Andrew Clayton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@digital-domain.net">andrew@digital-domain.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:47:06 +0000, gordon dunlop wrote:<br>
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> TuxRadar videoed four different 64-bit systems to see which booted up<br>
> fasted: Vista, Windows7, Ubuntu 9.04 & Ubuntu 9.10<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://tuxradar.com/content/vista-windows-7-ubuntu-904-and-910-boot-speed-comparison" target="_blank">http://tuxradar.com/content/vista-windows-7-ubuntu-904-and-910-boot-speed-comparison</a><br>
><br>
> Gordon<br>
<br>
</div></div>One question is: What is the definition of booted up?. For me, I'd say<br>
say sitting at a terminal with idle cpu and disk.<br>
<br>
No dirty tricks like loading X/desktop early and then doing a load of<br>
stuff in the background. I'm not saying Ubuntu does this, but then<br>
again they well might, if I remember reading correctly. I'm sure Windows<br>
is not above this kind of kludge either.<br>
<br>
Show me the bootchart!<br>
<br>
Although I don't really know what the fuss is about boot times. I boot<br>
my machines at most once a day (unless booting new kernels).<br>
<br></blockquote><div> That's true, does it matter whether it takes one minute or two minutes to boot when you are going to use it for a few hours. Maybe its because users want to see better performance within their systems (instant-on button age) and within the IT world performance, efficiency & cost are becoming keywords or buzzwords that people are reacting to.<br>
I have just finished reading an article about a 100-core processor:<br><br><a href="http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/11/02/tilera_quanta_servers/">http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/11/02/tilera_quanta_servers/</a><br>
<br>It could really shake up things in the IT world if it is successful<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Perhaps more important for mobile/embeded devices, but you'd more<br>
likely be using sleep/suspend there. I do hibernate my media box<br>
(900MHz Athlon, running Fedora 10) and it gets back into X pretty quick.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I do think the power savings of Fedora with the sleep/suspend mode is great and it reacts quickly when I touch a key.<br><br>Gordon<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Andrew<br>
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