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Slow startup? Bootchart reveals all
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| Ever wondered what takes your Linux box so long to boot up? You can see for
| certain with the Bootchart package. Bootchart logs the entire startup process
| and produces a clean, graphical representation of its results suitable for
| everything from troubleshooting to good old-fashioned bragging rights.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/151496
21 of the Best Free Linux Video Console Emulators
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| Emulation refers to the duplication of functions of one system using a
| different system. Specifically, an emulator is software specifically written
| to emulate aspects of the original console or computer, primarily the CPU,
| I/O and memory system.
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http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20081012160727880/VideoConsoles.html
Recent:
Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy task
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| We have just just released Mandriva Linux 2009 RC2 (with GNOME 2.24 final
| version, among new features ;), as well as reduce boot time on a lot of
| systems.
|
| I thought it would be interesting to explain the various things we tried to
| save some seconds when booting, since it is a hot topic these days, with
| impressive results from various people, including Arjan Van de Ven 5s boot on
| a EEE 901 PC, even if I don't agree with all Arjan conclusions, mostly
| because it is not always possible to achieve the same kind of tuning with a
| flexible distribution which can run on many hardware platform, in contrast of
| a stripped installation and on a single (and now underpowered) hardware
| platform (Unfortunately, Mandriva folks couldn't attend to LPC this year,
| because we were busy working on Mandriva 2009 release ; let's hope new year
| LPC schedule won't conflict with our own schedule).
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http://blog.crozat.net/2008/09/improving-boot-time-on-general-linux.html
Related:
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/
Is your Anti-Virus software slowing down your Vista boot time?
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| When Microsoft first announced the feature set for Vista, one of the things
| they claimed was that you would actually have shorter startup times, but we
| later discovered that what they meant was that there would be power saving
| features that would make it easy to put your PC into sleep mode when you're
| not using it and quickly resume.
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http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/12/10/is-your-anti-virus-software-slowing-down-your-vista-boot-time/
The Vista Sleep of Death
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| Ok, I have to admit I did have issues with the Vista Sleep of Death
| (so-called). Sometimes my computer would go into sleep mode and be difficult
| to wake up.
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http://www.alaskainmydreams.com/blog/?p=73
Windows Vista's Hideous Wakeup Support
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| One thing we just can't wrap our mind about is the terrible,
| broken, and completely pitiful support for waking Vista up from
| a Deep Sleep or hibernation.' Any time you attempt to wake Vista
| up from Hibernation or "Deep Sleep" (S3-induced sleep mode), it
| dies. It's either a BSOD, or a driver error, or a broken network,
| no DWM, lack of sound... the list goes on, and on. So much for an
| operating system to "power" the future! (No pun intended!) That's
| with properly-signed drivers and no buggy software on
| multiple PCs...
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http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/299
Vista SP1 a Performance Dud
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| After extensive testing of both RTM and SP1-patched versions of Windows
| Vista, it seems clear that the hoped-for performance fixes that Microsoft has
| been hinting at never materialized. Vista + SP1 is no faster than Vista from
| the RTM image.
|
| Bottom Line: If you've been disappointed with the performance of Windows
| Vista to date, get used to it. SP1 is simply not the panacea that many
| predicted. In the end, it's Vista's architecture - not a lack of tuning or
| bug fixes - that makes it perform so poorly on systems that
| were "barn-burners" under Windows XP.
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http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/11/vista-sp1-performance-dud.html
Vista Irritations
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| According to this Slashdot article, copying, moving and deleting
| files is slower under Vista. At least now I know why extracting a
| compressed file under Vista is like watching paint dry/grass grow
| (I've only tried using Winzip 11).
|
| [...]
|
| Now we name our directory and it?s done right? Not quite, because
| after typing your directory name and pressing enter, it's time
| for yet more prompts...
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http://harrisben.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/vista-irritations/
Vista: Slow and Dangerous
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| Most of the time I spent testing Vista was with sluggish pre-release
| versions. I expected things to improve when I ran the finished software
| on PCs configured for the new Windows version. I now realize that
| Vista really is slow unless you throw a lot of hardware at it.
| Microsoft claims it will run with 512 megabytes of memory. I had
| recommended a minimum of a gigabyte, but 2 GB is more like it if
| you want snappy performance.
|
| [...]
|
| The most exasperating thing about Vista, though, is the security
| feature called User Account Control. UAC, satirized in an Apple
| ad as a security guy who constantly interrupts a conversation,
| appears as a pop-up asking permission before Windows...
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http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/BusinessWeek/2007/03/26/3124001
Copying files across LAN with Vista is deathly slow
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| Copying files from my XP video capture pc to my Vista pc is 3 times
| slower than copying from my XP video capture PC to my old XP PC.
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http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/99609816/m/109009593831
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