[dundee] Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty fast boot... still a long way to go?

[Lee Hughes]

8 second to desktop? but is that usable, nt has a horrible of habit of letting you log in BUT NOT ACTUALLY LET YOU DO SOMETHING. So how long to get to a usable state? 

also running test inside a virtual environment, you testing the IO capabilities of the virtual machine emulation, do tests on bare metal if you can.

also, is booting time such a bad thing, it's not like you have to restart every time you install a piece of software or device driver.. like some other operating systems?

I tend to hibernate my system to disk on my laptop, so I never really boot unless I've updated the kernel. I have a super fast harddrive it, I can go from cold to a USABLE system, with all my apps ready and open in about 15 seconds.

and my laptops a piece of doo doo. and that's not bad. Best of all it does'nt play the windows sound.

and lets face it, once the registry starts to fill, and programs start adding 'tray programs' and extra 'services' , then boot times quickly approch inifity.
:-)

http://undercroft.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/mlf-skeleton-pd-05-kj0022.jpg

is a picture of a typical Windows user waiting for NT to boot. 

Cheers,
Lee


--- On Sun, 26/4/09, lug at seany.us <lug at seany.us> wrote:
From: lug at seany.us <lug at seany.us>
Subject: [dundee] Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty fast boot... still a long way to go?
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Date: Sunday, 26 April, 2009, 7:01 PM

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