Ubuntu to boot in 10 seconds?

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42817/140/

If operating systems could boot up so quickly, then why didn't they do it before? Anyway, it is a nice feature, but seems a bit unnecessary considering the introduction of SSDs.

 

Ya I read this on /. yday, they're trying to make sure X starts ASAP so that they can eliminate the entire loading screen, IDK if that's in the tom's article sorry I didn't read it lol

 

Yeah, they are going to load the components needed for X11 ASAP, so X will start faster. This is going to be really cool, and I can't wait.

 

This will be good,I'm always happy about faster boot's.

 

Totally rad. Eat this, Windoze.

 

Normally.. windows user use the "sleep" function. 0.5s "bootup time". LOL
BTW... with some optimization, Windows XP can boot up in under 10 seconds as well easily.

 

On my 1.1GHz,4200rpm it probably still will be above 20sec booting time, if not more. Time to get SSD.

 

An 8 year old OS on modern hardware. Of course.

 

Well.. Windows 7 will boot just a little bit slower than XP. 10 seconds boot time should be attainable with a standard HDD with some optimizations and easily attainable with SSD.

 

I will love to see the login time on Windows 7.

 

Theere's a youtube video on Windows 7 bootup time on my slow netbook.

I have standard SSD and I have not cached anything using SD cards.

With everything included, bios, boot scree, until everything has done loading, it only takes 20 seconds. Imagine what will it be like on a more powerful computer.

 

ubuntu already boots ridiculously fast from the ssd on my eeepc

 

Hey Weegie....good to see someone around here with a real notebook.....LOL

 

Hopefully the Ubuntu developers don't become utterly obsessed with improving boot performance for this release, otherwise we won't see any productive changes in the distro.

 

LOL.. it's shameful that us "netbook" owner have faster bootup time. LOL

 

I still pick performance over faster bootup

 

Hi All,

What do you mean when you talking about booting time at any systems (ubuntu/windows)?
I mean it's from the turn on your computers or the moment when your systems starts to loading and the during time to get your log in screen, so?

 

Different BIOS images from various manufacturers take longer to POST, so strictly speaking it is the time from after the BIOS is finished loading to the moment the desktop appears (not the login screen).

 

Hehe,other's would probably disagree

I'm figuring thezoid was talking "tongue in cheek" and your only faster by a couple of second's anyway,SSD v HD,W7 v XP,my pda also boot's faster than my notebook,doesn't really mean much in the overall scheme of thing's though as far as total performance and functionality go's.But I agree ,there's no such thing as booting too fast

As an aside,if I was using a small SSD [which is all I could bring myself to part with money wise currently]and particularly on a netbook,vista,W7 bloatmeister's would be the last thing's being installed on it anyway.

I'm looking forward to this ubuntu release.

 

Hah, yeah, booting from Sleep will take next to no time. Booting cold to login within 10s, without using some sort of pre-imaged load time, I think it would be hard for Ubuntu, and nigh impossible for Vista. For XP, as long as you don't have a lot of drives and load-time drivers, I think it is very doable. Same thing with Windows 7. On my system at home with 3 HDD, 1 DVD-RW, and a combo card reader attatched as a removable mass storage device, I get my Windows 7 RC to boot up from cold in under 30 seconds. I imagine if I tuned down some features (I turned on _EVERYTHING_ so I could do testing against different features) and I had more recent drives (I'm using an old IDE drive as the boot OS drive, since the storage drives are occasionally moved from machine to machine) then I imagine I could get that boot time pretty close to 10 seconds. Considering they want this to work off a netbook, and they have included a lot of new tech and system level work to take advantage of SSDs, then we could see some nearly instantaneous bootups. Hibernation boots could be incredibly fast indeed.

I think a more important metric to follow would be the mean time from Power-On until you can get a usable and interactable desktop environment. Where extraneous addons, AntiVirus, and Desktop Gadgets are finished loading. This would be a more impressive thing to test. However trying to establish the same software package and loadout for multiple platforms and have the test be fully apples to apples would be very difficult.

I'll keep Ubuntu (or Slackware) for my file and MySQL server, but I'll definitely use Windows 7 as my primary desktop OS on my development machine.

 

Yep, Ubuntu or Slackware....