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

Posted Jun 11, 2009 21:06 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04 (ars Technica) by martinfick
Parent article: Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04 (ars Technica)

Server BIOSes really don't help here. Have you seen how long, say, the
Tyan S7010's BIOS sits at a dead black screen before deigning to show you
*anything*?

(It's about 30s. 30s! It's a good thing this machine never gets shut
down...)