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In Phoronix they have already made several articles that analyze the improvements in the Ubuntu boot process, especially since reducing this time was one of the clear objectives of those responsible for the distribution since the development of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx began. |
Now they have had the opportunity to return to analyze this process after the presentation of Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3, the third preliminary version of a distro that, in addition to external and above all "social" improvements (Gwibber to power), has also advanced in the search for that ultra-fast boot.
For the tests Phoronix has used a netbook, the Samsung NC10 with an Atom at 1,60 GHz that yes: it has a 32 Gbyte SSD drive, an element that is crucial for the results obtained by this distribution.
In the tests, the Ubuntu 9.10 boot schemes were checked against Ubuntu 10.04 - specifically, a daily compilation from February 23 - and the difference was astonishing. Ubuntu 9.10 booted in 54 seconds, and Ubuntu 10.04 did it in 17,51 seconds, a surprising discount.
As they indicate in the original article, that ultra-fast startup relies on using fewer processes during startup, plus newer versions of components like X.Org Server and Plymouth help too.
Repeated testing on a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 -this time with an 80 Gbyte SATA hard drive- and more of the same: 65 seconds for Ubuntu 9.10, and 20,36 seconds for Ubuntu 10.04, another outstanding time especially considering that it was not an SSD drive.
Phoronix tests also revealed that Lucid Lynx is also more energy efficient, and it seems that everything points to the fact that Canonical developers will achieve their goal and will get our systems ready in much less time. Fantastic.
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