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  • #61
    Originally posted by deanjo View Post
    Also Red Hat when it comes to share of the software industry doesn't even come close to ranking as a large software company.
    That exactly was the positive thing I pointed in my post mate.

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    • #62
      btw. Ubuntu is a VERY slow linux-dist!!!

      On my old Pentium 4(2GHz) with 512MB Ram, takes Ubuntu 40 sec to boot and is pretty slow agienst Windows XP. If I run Archlinux isted of Ubuntu, my old computer boots on 7 sec and the hole operating-system is twice faster then Windows XP!!

      Im OSX and Linux user, and I can say that Ubuntu (Gnome) isn't close to OSX in GUI, Windows is closer.

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      • #63
        Originally posted by Apopas View Post
        Wow, I coudln't imagine Linux was going so well in Greece.
        So in the library installed few SuSE systems only? The current PCs that they are still used what run?
        Oops, missed that question, so let me answer it now that the thread has been necroed.

        The central PC labs now use Ubuntu 8.04 exclusively. I think a few PCs might be dual-booting to WinXP (for CAD/CAM software), but everything defaults to Linux now, which is pretty nice!

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        • #64
          If I run Archlinux isted of Ubuntu, my old computer boots on 7 sec
          Bootchart or it didn't happen. 7'' boot-to-desktop is pretty much impossible without a solid-state drive - and the Arch forums confirm this.

          I'll have to call shenanigans, especially in light of the "twice faster than XP!!" comment.

          For comparison, my laptop boots Ubuntu 9.10 in ~7'' (~5'' to GDM + 2'' for desktop) and it's a much more beefy system than yours (Intel X25-M SSD, 2.5GB RAM, Core 2 @1.8GHz). Ubuntu is also much more responsive than Windows 7 in day-to-day use on this machine.

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          • #65
            Originally posted by leetsweden View Post
            btw. Ubuntu is a VERY slow linux-dist!!!

            On my old Pentium 4(2GHz) with 512MB Ram, takes Ubuntu 40 sec to boot and is pretty slow agienst Windows XP. If I run Archlinux isted of Ubuntu, my old computer boots on 7 sec and the hole operating-system is twice faster then Windows XP!!
            All that is is a measure of how many services are being loaded on start up, not how well the OS performs. Ubuntu loads a lot more than an install of ArchLinux, but then is capable of a lot more out of the box, e.g. I believe off the top of my head that by default ArchLinux doesn't install or load cups. If you want to print you've got to install it. Ubuntu does, and it runs on start up.

            Real performance is what happens after the system has finished booting up and you actually start to use it.

            If you want to do a performance comparison of Ubuntu and ArchLinux, install the Phoronix Test Suite in each and run it through the gamut of tests. Be sure to keep as much identical between them as you can, e.g. format the file system using the same format (e.g. ext3).
            Then come back here, post your results, and then you might actually be speaking from a position of real knowledge about ArchLinux's performance over Ubuntu.

            My Core2Duo workstation when it was running archlinux and doing everything I needed it to do took over a minute to boot even using sreader, up from ~20 seconds that it took to boot in it's clean install state because I was running a fair number of additional services like Apache, MySQL, Exim and so on. Heck I even had to install a bunch of services that Ubuntu installs by default.

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            • #66
              Bootperformance is not all, also it is like compareing apples and oranges. For example U does not mount any other partition thats not used by default - that means only / and maybe /home. My distro is configured to mount every partition because it is usally more usefull, especially when you run services like samba, nfs that provide those externally. On a system with really lots of partitions that must be slower. Also when you install extra services live vdr or so that will not speed up boottime, so the end result can be twice or more time compared to a pure install with 1 partition on a hd. Of course the extra fast times you only get with help of a SSD which is too expensive or too small for lots of people. Even without any special tricks a pure install boots in about 15-16s to kdm (using bootchart) on a 3 ghz dual or similar pc with 1 tb hd. If you disable the initrd and splash you can gain 2 extra seconds. But the time you wait till the bios is ready and grub shows is not measured in bootchart, combined it could be 1 min too - especially with lots of hds in a pc. Thats not that critical until you power off the system every few minutes. For laptops it could make a difference, there it would be also usefull that suspend works, thats possible with desktop pcs too, but usally not used.

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              • #67
                Originally posted by Garp View Post
                All that is is a measure of how many services are being loaded on start up, not how well the OS performs. Ubuntu loads a lot more than an install of ArchLinux, but then is capable of a lot more out of the box, e.g. I believe off the top of my head that by default ArchLinux doesn't install or load cups. If you want to print you've got to install it. Ubuntu does, and it runs on start up.
                Actually, I ran some tests on this a few months ago and they indicated a strong correlation between disk accesses and boot times. I can't find the thread right now (it's on these forums), but the results went somewhat like this (fastest to slowest):
                1. Arch: ~100MB
                2. Ubuntu: 140MB
                3. Fedora: ~200MB
                4. OpenSUSE: ~250MB
                5. Vista: ~350MB


                With the exception of Vista, boot times where roughly linear with disk reads. Tests were carried out in brand new, fully updated VirtualBox VMs and the results were read by the VBox performance counters.

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                • #68
                  Originally posted by Garp View Post
                  Real performance is what happens after the system has finished booting up and you actually start to use it.
                  But there are few things more annoying than having your OS crash and then having to wait for it to reboot, which is why Microsoft has been faking 'fast boot' for so long by putting up the login screen way before the system is ready to use.

                  My Windows laptop has taken to spontaneously powering down lately, and XP takes about 30 seconds to get to the login screen and then about 2-3 minutes before it's actually usable after logging in (thanks to every little program wanting its own 'service' and 'taskbar applet' and wanting its own 'updater' to check for updates whenever you boot). The Ubuntu netbook with (I believe) a slower disk, a quarter of the RAM and a much slower CPU takes about the same time to get to the login screen and about 15 seconds before it's ready to use after logging in.

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by BlackStar View Post
                    Actually, I ran some tests on this a few months ago and they indicated a strong correlation between disk accesses and boot times. I can't find the thread right now (it's on these forums), but the results went somewhat like this (fastest to slowest):
                    1. Arch: ~100MB
                    2. Ubuntu: 140MB
                    3. Fedora: ~200MB
                    4. OpenSUSE: ~250MB
                    5. Vista: ~350MB


                    With the exception of Vista, boot times where roughly linear with disk reads. Tests were carried out in brand new, fully updated VirtualBox VMs and the results were read by the VBox performance counters.
                    Right, which just emphasises my point, there is a lot more taking place on those distributions that take longer to boot. Whether you want that stuff to occur is another argument that again has little to do with the performance of the OS After all most people boot their system maybe once a day (maybe more than that if you run windows ) Performance is best measured by looking at how fast the actual tasks you do operate, all those metrics that the Phoronix suite does. That's what gives you a real indication of how the distribution performs.

                    Of course if they hit that ~5 seconds or less boot time target then people might start shutting down and powering up their systems a bit more frequently. Heck, even 20 seconds I was getting for Arch was great (right up until I threw that out the window by installing all those additional services I need)

                    I'd be inclined to call Bull on ~7 seconds on that spec laptop frankly. Even ArchLinux fresh on my office machine (Core2Duo E7300, not exactly a slouch) it took around 20 seconds to boot.

                    Originally posted by movieman View Post
                    But there are few things more annoying than having your OS crash and then having to wait for it to reboot, which is why Microsoft has been faking 'fast boot' for so long by putting up the login screen way before the system is ready to use.
                    I fully agree. Fast boot times are awesome. I'm not denying that. It's just that the poster I first quoted was using it as a benchmark of how fast the distribution was full stop, instead of how fast it boots.
                    Last edited by Garp; 01 December 2009, 01:37 PM.

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Garp View Post
                      Of course if they hit that ~5 seconds or less boot time target then people might start shutting down and powering up their systems a bit more frequently. Heck, even 20 seconds I was getting for Arch was great (right up until I threw that out the window by installing all those additional services I need)
                      Just wait till SSDs become commonplace. My laptop boots so fast now that I have actually disabled hibernation (reclaiming ~5GB of space, which is pretty imprortant on a 80GB SSD) and no longer bother to sleep (which slowly kills the battery).

                      Moreover, I no longer dread dist-upgrades. Even if I need to reboot, 15'' later I'm back online (shutdown: 5'', bios: 2'', boot: 7'', plus 1'' to type my password). I find myself actually enjoying the boot experience.


                      I fully agree. Fast boot times are awesome. I'm not denying that. It's just that the poster I first quoted was using it as a benchmark of how fast the distribution was full stop, instead of how fast it boots.
                      Confused, are you referring to me or leetsweden?

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