Aggg45 Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 which version of linux has the fastest boot time??? For example i would like a smal/simple distro (I really just need a web-browser) which can boot very fast like under 20 secs, does anyone know of a linux distro that does this? or anything related??? I currently have a quadboot laptop running Vista, XP, Ubuntu and Leopard using the EasyBCD to make the vista bootloader, each OS that I have takes roughly 40-50 secs to boot from cold start thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggg45 Posted April 27, 2008 Author Share Posted April 27, 2008 http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot yeah I heard about that I think asus has done something with one of there boards which boots into linux in 5 secs, but how safe is it? would I be able to restore my bios from scratch or would it stay that way forever? I would be willing to try it out if I knew I could get my bios back btw: how long does damnsmalllinux or puppylinux take to boot if installed on a harddrive ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark4181 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 i've got 4 operating systems on my pc.. windows, fedora 8, centos and opensuse.. they all boot in 30-35 seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chachawpi Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Whichever distribution you enable the fewest startup services on. Arch, Gentoo, and Slackware force you to enable each and every startup service, so they would probably be considered the fastest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Whichever distribution you enable the fewest startup services on. Exactly. I wanted to write the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris2k Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 If it's so important for you, you can do these things: 1. Tell the bootloader not to wait too long (probably saves most time). 2. (already said) disable all unwanted daemons/services. 3. Compile your own kernel, with only the things that you need. 4. Choose a fast filesystem. If it's not going to be a networked box, you can also consider installing an old distro, like an old slackware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MERLIN2049ER Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I would guess using Damn Small Linux on a USB key would boot extremely quickly. It comes with Firefox and adobe reader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 You could also perform a Debian minimal installation: http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst and add just what you need, like a light Window Manager (Icewm, Fluxbox) and a web-browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forceman Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 It's simply not true that start time has to do with loads of services, you can have loads of services and a quick boot time, it's down to the order and how they start and where. Upstart tries to clean this up, slackware, Gentoo never started quicker then my current start time(about 20 seconds. Yes if you turn udev off it will boot real fast but not much at all will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Any distro with in 50-100 megs will boot quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chachawpi Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 It's simply not true that start time has to do with loads of services, you can have loads of services and a quick boot time, it's down to the order and how they start and where. Upstart tries to clean this up, slackware, Gentoo never started quicker then my current start time(about 20 seconds. Yes if you turn udev off it will boot real fast but not much at all will work. It is definitely true. Slackware and Arch Linux use BSD-style init scripts. Gentoo uses its own. Whether it's event driven or not, if you have less stuff running it will take less time to start. There's no point in arguing with that. Gentoo is the fastest booting distro I've used. Arch Linux and Slackware are comparable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Gentoo is the fastest booting distro I've used. Arch Linux and Slackware are comparable. Thus one of the slimmed down Slackware derivatives could be what Aggg45 is looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Thus one of the slimmed down Slackware derivatives could be what Aggg45 is looking for. He should try Slax, but the smaller version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forceman Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 It is definitely true. Slackware and Arch Linux use BSD-style init scripts. Gentoo uses its own. Whether it's event driven or not, if you have less stuff running it will take less time to start. There's no point in arguing with that. Gentoo is the fastest booting distro I've used. Arch Linux and Slackware are comparable. The services dont take long to start at all, what boot times do you get anyway, if your talking about a proper average user desktop then some services do need to start. An example is XP, it had loads of services running yet was able to boot fast. Here's a hypothetical scenario for you then, Slackware takes 5 seconds to load 10 services up each take half a second. Ubuntu loads 20 services up and takes the same time, how can than be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Ubuntu is 'n00bified. Understand that it is made so that you can't be able to customize its guts like you would Gentoo, perse. Every serious distribution I have used has a text boot (you can see the kernel, whoopee!). Not some GUI thing that takes forever to load.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forceman Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Ubuntu is 'n00bified. Understand that it is made so that you can't be able to customize its guts like you would Gentoo, perse. Every serious distribution I have used has a text boot (you can see the kernel, whoopee!). Not some GUI thing that takes forever to load.. Nonsense, sorry but you dont know much about Linux if you think Ubuntu is noob you can't change anything, ever heard of editing grub, yes you can edit scripts and text files in Ubuntu like any other. Build your own kernel, yep I've done that in Ubuntu and it worked like any other, ever heard of verbose mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Nonsense, sorry but you dont know much about Linux if you think Ubuntu is noob you can't change anything, ever heard of editing grub, yes you can edit scripts and text files in Ubuntu like any other. Build your own kernel, yep I've done that in Ubuntu and it worked like any other, ever heard of verbose mode? Actually, I build personal distributions almost all of the time I use Linux. I'm very far away from a n00b. I'm talking about Ubuntu's OTB setup. To get it to work as fast as Gentoo or Slackware you'd need to work your ass off. Solution 2: just install Slackwaree or Gentoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris2k Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 A default ubuntu install is actually booting really slow, because it loads everything to be user friendly. Sure, you can turn that all off, but that takes alot of time and also wastes disk space, if you don't need it anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forceman Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Wow, lots of misconceptions going off here, Slackware used to takes longer to boot on the last version because it used 2.4 kernel and old hotplug, thats got nothing to do with services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slip Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 SplashTop Linux Isn't that what they call it now. I hope to see more of this in the near future. I caters more to your internet appliance market . Instant on internet flash /Memory based . Usefull for the kinda thing I doing now. Any one have one of the ASUS boards that has this in the bios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 SplashTop Linux Isn't that what they call it now. I hope to see more of this in the near future. I caters more to your internet appliance market . Instant on internet flash /Memory based . Usefull for the kinda thing I doing now. Any one have one of the ASUS boards that has this in the bios. Wow, that is pretty impressive. Unfortunately: How do I get one? Splashtop is bundled with motherboards, desktops and notebooks by their manufacturers. http://www.splashtop.com/get.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris2k Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Wow, lots of misconceptions going off here, Slackware used to takes longer to boot on the last version because it used 2.4 kernel and old hotplug, thats got nothing to do with services. I don't know how fast/slow the latest slackware is because I haven't used it since 1999. Let's not get in a distrofight here, I use FreeBSD anyways. Fact is, more services = more load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggg45 Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 thanx everyone will take this info gonna try all these methods in a few weeks and post which one was the fastest one for me, please post anymore that you know of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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