Measuring Fedora's Boot Performance
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| Fedora 7 had crawled at start-up with a boot time of 87 seconds! It's maximum
| disk throughput had dropped to 15MB/s and there were even more processes
| running at start-up than Fedora Core 6. Fortunately, in Fedora 8 the boot
| time dramatically decreased and was back down to 51 seconds. Its throughput,
| however, was 12MB/s. The boot time for Fedora 9 Rawhide was 66 seconds. It's
| important to note that Rawhide/development versions of Fedora are slower than
| the official releases due to kernel debugging messages, etc being enabled.
| The maximum disk throughput had slumped to 8MB/s.
|
| [...]
|
| While Ubuntu's boot performance has been improving with each release, this
| hasn't exactly been the case for Fedora. The boot time has only remained the
| same and increase in some releases. However, between Fedora Core 4 and Fedora
| 9 there has been a lot of reform within this camp that lives on the leading
| edge of Red Hat technologies and the merging of the Core and Extras
| repositories. Fedora 8 takes about twice as long as Ubuntu 7.10 to boot on
| the same notebook, but Fedora starts up by default with many more processes.
| Right now Fedora 9 Rawhide is booting slower than Fedora 8, but by the time
| Fedora 9 "Sulphur" is released we expect its boot time will decrease.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_boot_perf&num=1
Another reason for speed in Linux:
Anti-virus software is dead - use Linux
http://www.internetling.com/2008/03/09/anti-virus-software-is-dead-use-linux/
Yesterday:
BIOS boots to Linux in one second
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| Firmware company General Software announced that it is selling customized,
| quick-booting versions of its Linux-compatible BIOS firmware to the medical
| device industry. The company says its "Embedded BIOS with StrongFrame
| Technology" can boot to lilo (Linux loader) in less than a second.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5429881813.html
Related:
Measuring Ubuntu's Boot Performance
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| Even with many new features and additions appearing in every new Ubuntu
| release, it's gratifying to see the boot time continuing to drop. While our
| Ubuntu 8.04 build was three seconds slower than Ubuntu 7.10, it was a
| development build and we would expect further optimizations to occur prior to
| the April release of Hardy Heron. With Ubuntu gearing up to increase their
| presence on mobile Linux devices, the boot time will become increasingly
| important so we would expect optimizations not only now but in the long-term
| as well.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_boot_perf&num=1
Startup times
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| PCLinuxOS 2007 (on my home laptop, a middle-of-the-road machine): 40 seconds
| Mandriva 2008: 40 seconds
| Xubuntu 7.10: 45 seconds
| openSUSE 10.3 (clean install, OSS/KDE): about 45 seconds
| Fedora 8: about 50 seconds (a huge improvement over the last few versions :-)
| Windows Vista: 3 minutes 45 seconds
| ...What?
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http://distrogue.blogspot.com/2007/12/startup-times.html
Ubuntu vs. That Other OS
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| Both machines have the same exact specs, both have been used for the same
| time (to be fair I have tweaked the OS on the left quite a bit to optimize
| it). Ubuntu is already idle by the time the video ends; while the other PC
| takes 30 seconds more than what I’ve uploaded to idle the hard drive.
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http://blog.estebanglas.com.ar/2007/11/ubuntu-vs-that-other-os/
Quick booting SBC runs Debian Linux
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| Technologic Systems has announced a single-board computer (SBC) claimed to
| boot Linux 2.6 in under two seconds.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3219821348.html
Mach Boot: The live CD that supposedly boots in 10 seconds
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| Mach Boot won't replace Knoppix, and it won't replace Puppy, DSL or NimbleX
| either. But it's a tool all its own, one that could be very useful with a
| little more development time.
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http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/09/the_live_cd_that_supposedly_bo.html
Tiny WiFi-enabled Linux box boots in 1.1 seconds
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| Technologic continues to reduce the boot time, price, and size of
| its embedded boards and systems targeting remote sensing and other
| power-critical applications. Its new $100 ARM9-based TS-7400 board can
| boot Linux in 1.1 seconds, and is available as part of a tiny
| WiFi-enabled system.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6252722644.html
Flexible ARM9 SBC boots Linux in 1.69 seconds
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| Technologic Systems is offering a freely downloadable, Debian-based Linux
| OS image said to boot from an SD card in less than two seconds, on the
| company's ARM9-based SBC (single-board computer).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8933335475.html
Phoenix HyperSpace: Quick-Boot Your Laptop
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| Phoenix Technologies' new HyperSpace is an instant-on environment for
| laptops, letting users launch a browser or other apps with booting into the
| OS.
|
| Today, Phoenix Technologies introduced a firmware product called HyperSpace,
| which allows PCs to run a number of applications separate from the operating
| system. What that means is that if you use a PC equipped with HyperSpace, you
| will be able to quick-boot your notebook into a secure Linux environment,
| where you can use Web browsers like FireFox and pre-loaded Web-aware apps
| like Google Earth, Picasa, and the like.
|
| [...]
|
| Also, since HyperSpace is a Linux-based platform, Windows viruses won't
| affect it.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2211507,00.asp
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