On my home computer and office computer, I have logged the time taken upto logging in, it turns out that Ms windows(XP) is faster than Linux. On both computers, dma is turned on.On my home computer, I have SUSE, Fedora and Knoppix (debian) installed and on office computer, only Fedora. I have measured with all the distros and while knoppix is faster of the distros, still it doesn't measure upto Windows in speed. Both fedora and SUSE take about one and a times longer time, evrything else remaining same.
Any comments ? Or am I missing something ?
Parameshwara Bhat.
Personally, I wouldn't be looking at bootup times, as much as to which OS will stay up longer without a reboot, or being able to apply updates, new programs, security patches, without having to reboot. In the Linux world, the bootup time is such a small slice of the pie since it's not done as often, because it's not needed as often.
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