Well worth the upgrade

[Headfuzz]

I just installed Mandriva 2006 RC1 in place of 2005 LE on my main box...

Oh my God it's quick!!!

Lilo to graphical logon including bringing up the wireless interface in just over 30 seconds on my Sempron 2500+... Sure as hell beats the good coupla minutes 2005 took! :D

Well done Mandriva! :)

I hear rumour that OpenSuse 10.0 RC1 is similar in the increased loading speed between it and Suse 9.3 - can anyone verify this? I'm currently running Suse 9.3 on the laptop (a Dell Latitiude CPx PIII 650MHz / 256Mb SDRAM) and it runs fine, but could be faster on boot etc. I haven't been able to download the full install iso's from the torrent yet so would appreciate hearing about anyone's experiences upgrading Suse 9.3 to OpenSuse 10.0 RC1... :)

[Dr. Shim]

I have an 800 MHz AMD Irongate computer with 512 MB of SDRAM. SuSE 9.3 reaches the graphical login screen under a minute.

Interestingly enough, it's about as fast as my 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 Windows XP machine!

[Headfuzz]

Interestingly enough, it's about as fast as my 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 Windows XP machine!

Sounds about right, hehe ;)

[Parcival]

SuSE 9.3 reaches the graphical login screen under a minute.

Well, it's probably because you have a fair amount of memory in your box. My dad's computer who is similar to yours but still has 128MB of RAM already has SuSE swap memory as it boots. :rolleyes:

[Icarus]

What does boot time have to do with computer speed? All it's doing is configuring services and most of these can be done in parallel, which is what WinXP does

We don't care about boot time, we want to see Doom3 timedemo benchmarks! :D

[Piko]

SuSE 10.0 RC1 boots time is much faster then anything I have ever seen. They really improved the whole system performace. Everything runs faster! I really think SuSE 10 RC1 is worth the download. Only problem is getting the mad-libs installed for mp3 support, but if you just get the multimedia packs for SuSE 9.3, then your all set.

[rocketpcguy]

just get slackware and modify the boot scripts, 24 second boot to the working icewm desktop.

[retsaw]

just get slackware and modify the boot scripts, 24 second boot to the working icewm desktop.24 seconds!

You're not trying hard enough. :p

I managed to get Slackware down to 19 seconds booting into a XFCE4 desktop.

[Headfuzz]

We don't care about boot time, we want to see Doom3 timedemo benchmarks! :D

Would love to, except I never install games as I am so totally and utterly hopeless at them! :o

It's the only way I maintain any dignity living in the same flat as someone who puts pretty much everyone I know to shame when it comes to video games... ;)

[Headfuzz]

24 seconds!

You're not trying hard enough. :p

I managed to get Slackware down to 19 seconds booting into a XFCE4 desktop.

Dayum. :eek:

That's fast. :cool:

[saikee]

Where in Slackware I could edit entries in the boot script to quicken the boot time? Sound fantastic because Slackware seems to be able to do everything quicker than the others.

[retsaw]

From memory, because I don't run Slack any more (I prefer Arch Linux). I stripped it down as much as I could, only running what I needed. I recompiled my kernel including all the features I used into the kernel, with everything I might use as a module (you don't want the kernel bigger than neccessary). I disabled hotplug as I had everything I needed in the kernel I didn't need hardware detection at boot, if needed I could probably have put it at the end of the boot script after everthing else had loaded (maybe I did in the end I can't remember). I also commented out ldconfig (you only really need it after you install new programs) and depmod (you only need this after installing new kernel modules). I made some programs run in the background and I made X start a bit earlier as it take a little while to initialize (yes, everything had finished loading by the time the desktop was ready).

As to where to make those specific changes, I'm sure you can work that out yourself, as the beauty of Slackware is in it's simplicity and it's boot scripts are fairly easy to understand.

[Parcival]

Where in Slackware I could edit entries in the boot script to quicken the boot time?

Disabling DHCP can do miracles for boottime. :D