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Ubuntu 9.04 Boots in 21.4 Seconds
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| There are only two days left until the third Alpha version of the upcoming
| Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) will be available
| (for testing), and... we couldn't resist the temptation to take the current
| daily build for a test drive, before our usual screenshot tour, and taste
| the "sweetness" of that evolutionary EXT4 Linux filesystem. Announced on
| Christmas Eve, the EXT4 filesystem is now declared stable and it is
| distributed with version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel and later. However, the
| good news is that the EXT4 filesystem was implemented in the upcoming Ubuntu
| 9.04 Alpha 3 a couple of days ago and it will be available in the Ubuntu
| Installer, if you choose manual partitioning (see the screenshot below for
| details). The bad news is that EXT4 will not be the default filesystem for
| the Ubuntu OS until version 9.10, due for release in late October this year.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-9-04-Boots-in-21-4-Seconds-101885.shtml
Ubuntu 8.10 upmc for the Asus EeePC? Don't bother, just install the full distro
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| I discovered recently the truth of the old saying that necessity is the
| mother of invention. Yes, I finally did it. I bricked my beloved EeePc. I had
| just installed the Smart package manager and a subsequent reboot saw me stuck
| in, well, an eternal boot loop. Impulsive mixing of repositories always ends
| in tears—but not being able to boot? Argh! To rub salt into the wound I had
| mislaid the Xandros DVD to do a reinstall and I didn’t even have an external
| CD/DVD drive anyway. Organised or what? Well, I might not be organised but
| I’m a persistent little bugger and I was determined to either fix Xandros or
| replace it with something as good or better without shelling out for an
| external drive in the process. Ubuntu appeared to come to the rescue and not
| just any Ubuntu, but “the” Ubuntu specifically modified for ultra portable
| micro computers and MIDs—on a flash drive no less. Canonical seem to be
| taking netbooks seriously.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/ubuntu_8_10_upmc_asus_eeepc_dont_bother_just_install_full_distro
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/
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.
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| 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.
|
| [...]
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| 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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