Ubuntu 9.10 boot optimizations: 5 second startup with an SSD

[Daniel ~]

Written by Daniel
Monday, 21 September 2009

The latest Ubuntu 9.10 alpha release includes significant improvements to boot performance. Tests show that the popular Linux distribution can now boot in mere seconds on a computer with a solid state drive. [Front page...]

[chrisbard]

ah well the fact that is booting iß a miracle in itself. does it have a gui or u can have a bliping cursor in 5? zomg i just realized next ubu must be nineeleven

[noob]

Actually the release numbers are year/month So 9.10 is 2009 October. The next release will be 10.04 then 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, etc. Every 6 months another free upgrade. This can even be done in place, not changing anything until you reboot. I can keep working/playing while I upgrade the OS I'm using. Then a reboot, all my settings are the same, and I'm using the new OS.

Each new upgrade is approx the equivalent of upgrading from W2k to XP.

Have a look at compiz animations on youtube.

One thing which has always annoyed me about MS, and they have only just rectified in W7, and as far as I know has always been available in *nix, is the ability to change the order on the taskbar.

EDIT:
BTW its also free

[Daniel ~]

AND... unlike some OS's we won't mention...cough (Win 7) cough...it's worth booting up! ":O}

[robbie]

I'm sure it support boot to jump drive? You can get an 8 gig SD card for pretty cheap these days.

[Aedan]

Originally Posted by chrisbard

ah well the fact that is booting iß a miracle in itself. does it have a gui or u can have a bliping cursor in 5?

That's a GUI. It's nearly as good as Haiku (Opensource BeOS), which can manage boot times of in the order of 4 seconds to a fully functional desktop from a cold boot without any solid state storage.