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On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Grant Sewell wrote: > 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. Never really timed my systems... Let me see: Acer Aspire One, booting off flash to GUI loaded: (Debian Lenny, xfce4) Power button to Lilo prompt: 8 seconds. Time to desktop usable another 49 seconds. Could be better I guess, but I've not really done anything to try to make it better. Probably won't, since I use standby most of the time... Lid down to standby mode (using the disk LED & fan as a guide!): 16 seconds. Coming out of standby mode: 11 seconds. I want shutdown & standby to be faster: Power button pushed to power off: 39 seconds. It's writing/flushing stuff out to the flash drive that I think takes a lot of the time. It's not particularly fast at writing, so maybe putting bits of /var into a ramdisk is the way to go (as suggested in various forums) Gordon -- 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