Did Ubuntu 10.04 Achieve Its Ten Second Boot Goal?

We started with the Samsung NC10 netbook.

The Samsung NC10 with its Intel Atom N270 and OCZ Core Series SSD had a boot time of 55 seconds and 70MB/s peak disk throughput while under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS it exploded to 113MB/s and a boot time of just 18 seconds. The boot-time in Lucid Lynx is a huge improvement over Ubuntu 9.10 while it also uses Plymouth to provide a pleasant boot experience that leverages kernel mode-setting, but sadly we aren't exactly at the ten second timing yet. Next up was the ASUS EeePC 1201N. UPDATE: It appears that Bootchart was changed between Karmic and Lucid for how it measures the boot time, so the times between 9.10 and 10.04 are not directly comparable.

While the ASUS Eee PC 1201N boasts the dual-core, 64-bit Atom 330 processor and is built upon NVIDIA's ION platform, it booted slower than the older Samsung netbook due to the use of a traditional rotating hard drive. The boot time under Ubuntu 9.10 with the 1201N was 65 seconds and under Ubuntu 10.04 it is taking 23 seconds. The disk throughput tripled from 21MB/s to 63MB/s.