Ubuntu Hopes to Reduce Boot Time to 10 Seconds

The developers at Canonical, the company responsible for Ubuntu, have announced intentions to boot their Operating System in 10 seconds. The deadline for this goal is the April 2010 release, which has yet to receive a codename. From the 8.10 release to the 9.04 release, boot time was reduced from just over 1 minute to 25 seconds, proving that the developers are serious. This will be accomplished by optimizing the necessary aspects of the boot process. As an avid user of Ubuntu, this is an exciting development. However, since I only reboot about once per month I don't think I would be able to fully appreciate the improvements.

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Andrewr05 on June 10, 2009 05:01PM 10 seconds to boot a completely full fledged OS? --- Even for a Linux OS that is quite feat... reply to this

tkrow21 on June 10, 2009 05:02PM I'm guessing it doesn't count the BIOS screens lol. reply to this

Waco on June 10, 2009 05:29PM That's 10 seconds after POST...so not insanely fast (but still quick for a generic distro). reply to this

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