10 second boot.....?

[jmadero]

Hi All,

Was it just me or was there a goal of having 10 second boot for 9.10? Now I'm reading that 10.04 will "get closer", I don't even know what that means. Will this 10 second boot ever be a reality?

[techieMoe]

I do remember something about that. Personally, I don't see a 10-second boot happening until there are changes in BIOS (or a total replacement like EFI).

[elija]

Apparently has a 2 second boot on reasonable hardware

[Charles4809]

I have a Eee Box with an Atom processsor and 1GB of Ram.
It comes with an OS that gives the user a GUI with a choice of apps (limited: web, skype, photohandling, chat and online gaming).
This GUI is available in about 10 seconds from hitting the powerbutton. Which means the whole OS is loaded within the same time.
It is a bootloader as well, if chosen it starts GRUB where I can choose to go to either XP (pre-installed) or Mint, my preferred OS. Mint is quite fast, but XP is definitely slow in comparison.

[schwim]

Everyone has to have goals. If even 10% of the software companies met theirs, we'd live in a Eutopian society where applications wiped my butt while color coordinating my wardrobe.

You're reaping the benefits of the "10 second boot" goal in faster boot times, although it's not down to 10 seconds.

Personally, I'll live with the longer boot time if it means I don't have to put up with the bullcrap Ubuntu pulled to get the shutdown times smaller, where they've begun forcing all apps closed, instead of allowing them to shutdown on their own. I guess it could have been worse, they could have just told us to pull the power cord and called it a fantastic "Instant Shutdown" feature.

[jmadero]

I didn't realize they did that....I did notice an incredibly fast shutdown and was wondering how that was accomplished....is that safe on the hard drive to just force shutdown everything?

[schwim]

After restart, Firefox tab extension always lets me know that the browser crashed, asking if I want to restore the last usable session and I have had to restore a mailbox file in Thunderbird that was corrupted due to the file being modified(mail downloading, I suppose) during shutdown.

All in all, I'm not very impressed with their time cutting features.

[Roxoff]

Making dodgy changes to speed up shutdown seems pointless. I always hit the shutdown option, turn off the monitor and walk away (been a couple of times this last week where I've come back the next day to find that Widnows couldn't close for some daft reason and the machine was still logged on and unlocked...)

Anyway, my Eee pc with Moblin on the SSD here boots up in ~10 seconds. It was 10-15 seconds with Moblin 2.0, but I installed 2.1 yesterday and startup time seems even quicker. Moblin, though, is definitely not Ubuntu!