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I would be curious how to achieve similar or better results on other distros, particularly ubuntu.
by moneyrich4 13y ago
I would be curious how to achieve similar or better results on other distros, particularly ubuntu.
- claudius 13y agoAt this point, I don’t think that the distro matters much, as there is quite exactly nothing there except for the kernel, udev and the very first steps of startup.
- DanBC 13y agoThere's the famous "5 second boot" for Fedora on an EEE PC 701. That's a weak machine with a small, old, SSD. It's an "honest" boot time - from power on to desktop up with idle CPU and disk. (https://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ https://lwn.net/Articles/299483/) Here's an article trimming boot time of Fedora 17 to 3 seconds. (http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-17-boot-optimization-from-15-to-3-seconds http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-17-boot-opti...) There's some overlap between the two different approaches. If you wanted some esoteric hardware you could make an always powered RAM disc.