Re: Speed

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

if you mke your own distro and minimum kernel ...
- you can boot in about 5 seconds...

all the time spent is in "self checking" (hw and sw) of the distro

printing the silly boot messages to the screen also doubles
the bootime if the boot messages went to /dev/null instead
or eliminated completely  ( lots of tweeking to do that )

c ya
alvin

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Leo Spalteholz wrote:

> On October 26, 2002 11:48 pm, C. Brewer wrote:
> > - From power on to KDE-
> >
> > Mandrake 8.1=1min 52secs
> > RedHat 7.1= 1min 35secs
> > Debian 3.0= 47secs
> >
> > (with setups as close as possible by distro)
> 
> KDE 3.  XP 1600+
> 
> Debian 3.0 = 43 sec
> Windows XP = 23 sec
> 
> Then again they're not really comparable, the XP installation is 
> almost clean, the debian has lots running.
> 
> I'm gonna see how much of a difference a custom kernel will make
>