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Note that there is also an optimistic view on that issue. For instance, the same effect ensures that mobile phones aren't accepted to take too long to boot (com

• pbhjpbhj 16y ago
  >compare their boot times to the 2-5 minutes which computers usually need I thought my old Athlon 1.1GHz was slow but it boots in under 2 minutes (just), I consider that very slow. I can't really understand why phones would take long to boot, restoring state from flash memory can't be that slow surely? Quick test for me, new phone Sony T715 is 12s and old phone Sony Z610i is 6s (rough numbers, to usable interface not including signal acquisition); seems longer than it should be.
  • vog 16y ago
    > [...] boots in under 2 minutes Well, I thought about the usual end-consumer computers. You can indeed shorten it to 1-2 minutes if you use a slick operating system (my servers usually have that boot time), and I've been told that you can tune most BSD and Linux systems to boot in 20-30 seconds. However, this is still worse than even the worst mobile phones.
    • pbhjpbhj 16y ago
      >You can indeed shorten it to 1-2 minutes if you use a slick operating system Which OS are you using that takes 5 minutes to boot (and what hardware)? I'm just using Kubuntu 10.04 with a pretty standard install (though I've stripped most unneeded apps). It did boot marginally quicker (as did my other comp) with 9.10; though shutdown now is very quick.