On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Insurance Squared Inc. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was reading about complaints on boot time with windows 7 (talk of it eventually degrading to taking 6 minutes to boot) and it got me thinking.<br>
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Is there anything in linux that folks do to decrease boot time? Specifically the desktop because of course I only reboot my webservers every few years when we're doing something hardware related.<br></blockquote><div>
<br clear="all">Here is something I noticed on the new Kubuntu 9.10.<br><br>I installed it on an old AMD Sempron 1.8GHz with 1GB of RAM, and a Western Digital ATA 250GB 7200 RPM disk. This will act as the print/scan server replacing an older Pentium II that did the job faithfully for many years.<br>
<br>The fresh install means that this is a grub2 and ext4.<br><br>I timed the boot time from the second the BIOS screens disappear till I get the KDE login screen. It came to 21 seconds, even on this medium configuration. <br>
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