On May 31, 4:49 pm, Dave wrote:
Billy Smith wrote:

Its never taken me ten minutes to boot any of my computers. What I will
recommend is not to have a lot of stuff in your start menu Some people
go crazy with that and thats a big problem whether you were running
95,98, XP, or Vista. It takes mine maybe 2 to 3 minutes max which is
good time to get some coffee, use the can, or make a quick phone call.
Then with Insight 10.0 and wireless router and the built in wireless
card, we are ready to go.

My eeepc (screaming 630 Megahertz Celeron) goes from cold start to
Xubuntu in ca. 50 seconds. My full-on Ubuntu desktop takes 90 seconds,
with a 1.5 gHz Via C7.



Dell, 2.2 Gig Pentium 4,
One gig memory
7200 RPM Disk
35 Meg bus:

0 - XP Desktop == 33 seconds

0 - Ubuntu Login screen 28 seconds.