090420 Liviu Andronic wrote: > I stumbled on several posts [1] [2] concerning start-up speed of Linux. > Compared with the 5-17 secs posted in the posts, my (slightly old) Gentoo > needs around two minutes from power button to DE idle.
It will all depend on your hardware & precise start-up procedure. I have a regular desktop box with Asus P5K-VM mobo + Intel Core 2 Duo : Bios takes 10 s , Linux start-up (Lilo screen to login prompt) 25 s & after 'startx' KDE 3.5.10 takes 25 s incl 10 apps ; Fluxbox takes 6 s , but I have to start the apps by hand (which is very quick if you assign them to Alt-Fn keys). Start-up time is not that important for a desktop machine, which its user typically starts once/day while making coffee etc. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
