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On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:58:15 +0100 Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > Just seen this on Phoronix, it seems that Moblin has been further > tweaked so it boots even quicker. They demonstrated that it now > boots to a desktop in around 7 seconds with the entire boot taking 16 > seconds. > > The article and a video clip of it is here: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_moblin_2a2&num=1 > > I really do hope that they can introduce some of this into the > Desktop distros, I'd love it if my notebook could boot so quickly, > even 30 seconds would be nice. > > Rob I've just done a clean install of Debian Lenny on a spare partition on my laptop and I was very please with how quickly it gets from a Grub2 menu to a GUI login. Maybe Ubuntu was this fast when I first installed it, but these days my ageing 8.04.2 system is almost as slow as Windows (booting wise)! Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html