After hearing all the hype on ubuntu jaunty booting extremely fast, I decided to put it to the test! The results were rather frightening. I first installed a Jaunty desktop amd64 on a machine of the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5410 @ 2.33GHz 12 GB ECC DDR2 @ 667mhz 2x1000GB samsung spinpoint drives