The Great Boot Race
 

<http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-and-Windows-Boot-Times-Compared>

Ubuntu Karmic is way ahead of Jaunty. The only real surprise is that Vista
managed to beat Seven...

Re: The Great Boot Race
 

On Nov 9, 6:54*pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> <http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-and-Windows-Boot-T...>
>
> Ubuntu Karmic is way ahead of Jaunty. The only real surprise is that Vista
> managed to beat Seven...

Yes - defening the boot period as up to when the first application
starts does compare apples with apples. Windows presents a screen of
icons when there is still much booting work to do. Presumably they
tested a machine without MS Office since AFAIK chunks of Office are
started up at boot time to reduce the response time when the user
wants to use Office for the first time after booting.

Re: The Great Boot Race
 

On Nov 14, 10:23*am, peterwn <pete...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:

>Yes - defining the boot period as up to when the first application
>starts does compare apples with apples.

My XP systems are unusable for about a minute after the desktop
shows. Applications may start during that time, but are not usable.
By unusable I mean, for example, mouse pointer stalls, simple click
feedback taking several seconds, "connecting" in IE before it shows a
blank screen. I've tried to identity and disable most of the crud
that "phone home" but that has brought only marginal improvement.
When new they weren't like that, even after the same apps were
installed. It seems the windows update patches have gradually made it
slower.

It would be difficult to define when log on is complete. In contrast,
my Kubuntu Karmic is ready to go about 1 or 2 s after the panels
appear.

My 2¢.

Regards, John

Re: The Great Boot Race
 

In message <b4c06e82-
b4fa-4b3b-89fe-4d266b5716fb@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, John Little wrote:

> My XP systems are unusable for about a minute after the desktop
> shows. ... When new they weren't like that, even after the same apps were
> installed. It seems the windows update patches have gradually made it
> slower.

This is well-known
<http://groups.google.co.nz/groups?selm=hcog5j$99e$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>.

See also <http://wlug.org.nz/WindowsRot>.

Re: The Great Boot Race
 

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:54:27 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> <http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Onli...-Windows-Boot-
Times-Compared>
>
> Ubuntu Karmic is way ahead of Jaunty. The only real surprise is that
> Vista managed to beat Seven...

The only thing karmic proves is it wasnt tested on real hardware ..
nvidia hardware ...


https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Nvidia

By the time X was ready to start this building would have been completed.
In Karmic we now start X much earlier in the boot sequence, and this may
not always give DKMS enough time to finish making nvidia.ko. When X
discovers it is not there, it either falls back to the -nv or -vesa video
driver (if possible) or triggers the failsafe.

Karmic krapware at its finest boys ..

Biggles