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On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:22:51 +0100 Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > > 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)! Sounds like you installed too many servers that need to be started each reboot. Seriously though, why is everyone still rebooting? neil@holly:~$ w 11:36:59 up 187 days, 16:10, 7 users, load average: 0.12, 0.47, 0.70 Laptops should suspend/hibernate, not shutdown. My Aspire1 comes out of hibernation in about 8 seconds - and that's into the previous session, not the login box. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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