Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04 (ars Technica)

Posted Jun 11, 2009 8:52 UTC (Thu) by fb (guest, #53265)
In reply to: Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04 (ars Technica) by ajft
Parent article: Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04 (ars Technica)

The obsession with boot times is probably due to the fact that a _lot_ of Linux users can't or won't suspend or resume their computers.

Most people complaining about faster booting efforts seem to thinking in server/data-center terms where machines are not turned out. Or about their own laptops which never fail to suspend. _My_ laptop sometimes fail to suspend.

I also have a NAS at home (running Debian) which I turn off when not using it, and also have a Android Developer Phone. Both could use some faster boot time.

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I used to have a PentiumIII running Debian that would boot in 20s. It really smells of bad engineering that years later my Core2Duo laptop was booting at around 50s.