Re: Installfests (WAS: Re: [ossig] FOSS Meet)

[Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 08 November 2004 10:30, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> Seah Hong Yee wrote:
> > OK, Syllable boot from promt to login screen in 15 seconds, would you
> > switch ?
>
> Syllable ? What ? I'd go for DOS; less than 5 seconds from power-on to
> ... command-prompt. (Have to measure the time to W3.1 autostart, though,
> and guess it won't be much more - shall I migrate to W3.11 ??)


DOS is 5 sec without gui, syllable with 15 seconds to gui login screen + 
desktop startup another 10 sec, total of 25 sec and it is a somewhat posix 
compliant OS.

>
> A lot depends on the hardware. My main experiences here go on average
> stuff: Duron 800/256, PIII-866/256, Centrino1.4/256.
> Loading the kernel 2.4 or 2.6 alone takes longer than XP to prompt. And
> now I *bet* everyone who doesn't know me will *bet* I was a Micro$oftie !
>
That was what I used to test duron 900/256

> Uwe,
>
> who concedes that his boot-up-times on XP are extremely fast because
> (his) XP is usually very basic. When you throw in more programs it gets
> considerably slower.
> Try it out as well: install from scratch on a good partition and the
> first boot will be very fast (the second, to be precise).
>
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