startup times

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

Hi, i am 4m PB. You may remember me from posts like "OMG! Its RPG time again! (spam, ignore)" or "yet more spam (ignore even more)". Today i want you to share your startup times, in other words how fast your system boots.

These are the startup times on my Acer laptop: (1.73 GHz, 1 GB RAM)
Windows XP: 46 seconds
Puppy Linux: 48 Seconds
Sabayon Linux: 1.06 minutes to the login screen

(times taken with the stopwatch function of my wrist watch "Casio Illuminator")

[MRB 255]

On my Dell Inspiron E1505:

Windows Vista: I don't know, I can't get a clock to last that long
Zenwalk Linux: 20 sec in text only mode, 30-35 sec in graphical mode

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

Vista can be fast. Check this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j60-nsS8ZA

it's funny how my "visty" theme on Sabayon takes ~ 2 mins.

[FruitieX]

Debian on eeePC 1000: 9 seconds from grub to login prompt
plus a few seconds to start X and openbox

[accident.]

Well, I was curious, so I did the same tests. Here are the results ranked from slowest to quickest. The times are to a usable desktop (10 seconds after you first see it in the case of XP). All times measured with a Teletex clock on the TV (nothing else with seconds anywhere nearby ). If you like you can add to all of the below the 6 seconds it takes for the BIOS to stop messing around and get to the GRUB menu.

- Puppy Linux - 54s (took off 3 seconds for login questions)
- Windows XP Pro (32 bit) - 46s
- Arch Linux (64 bit) - 36s (including 8s after login prompt for KDE to start)
- Windows 7 Beta (64 bit) - 32s

This actually surprises me, because Windows 7 seems quicker than that. The only time I've been regularly using it is in the morning before work to get to the internet as fast as I can, but I guess it doesn't really make much difference. Oh well.

Of course, Windows 7 is a new installation, and every one knows Windows start up times approximately double with each update.

[Alien]

For those interested in fast boot check moblin project. Now this is fast.

[yun126]

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