Live CDs, Boot Time, Shutdown Time. |
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 | |
I had the opportunity to test the various Live CDs in my collection. I tested their boot up time and also how long they took to shutdown. Certain Live CDs could not be tested as they have many configurations steps that user intervention. A good example is the
popular PCLinuxOS.
I used my stopwatch to record the time. Inevitably, there would be a few seconds of inaccuracy, especially those Live CDs that needed the user to configure the system while they are booting up. For this testing, I used my Dell Inspiron 600m notebook with 1.4Ghz Pentium M processor and 1.5Gb ddr sdram. The graphic card used, was an ATI Radeon r250.
BOOT TIME (TILL DESKTOP FULLY LOADED).
BELOW 2 MINUTES. Damn Small Linux 3.3 (1 min 31 secs).
NimbleX 2007v2 (2 mins 5 secs). Sidux 2007-02 (2 mins 5 secs). Berry 0.79 (2 mins 8 secs). Vector Linux 5.8 std live (Xfce) (2 mins 23 secs). Ubuntu 6.06 Desktop (2 mins 35 secs). SimplyMepis 6.5 (2 mins 38 secs). Scientific Linux 5.0 (Gnome) (2 mins 39 secs). Fedora 7 Live i686 (2 mins 52 secs). Fedora 7 Live Kde i686 (2 mins 57 secs).
Linux Mint 2.2 (3 mins 5 secs). MCNLive-Toronto (3 mins 8 secs). Knoppix 5.1.1 (3 mins 10 secs). Grml 1.0 (fluxbox) (3 mins 20 secs). Kubuntu 7.04 Desktop (3 mins 20 secs). Linux Mint 3.0 (3 mins 38 secs). Sabayon Linux 3.3b miniEdition (3 mins 38 secs). Ubuntu 7.04 Desktop (3 mins 40 secs).
BELOW 5 MINUTES. Linux Mint 2.2 miniKDE (4 mins 25 secs).
Vector Linux 5.8 std live (12 secs).
UNDER 30 SECONDS. Berry Linux 0.79 (20 secs). Linux Mint 2.2 (20 secs). MCNLive-Toronto (20 secs). Sidux 2007-02 (24 secs). SimplyMepis 6.5 (25 secs). Damn Small Linux 3.3 (26 secs). NimbleX 2007v2 (26 secs). Scientific Linux 5.0 (26 secs). Ubuntu 6.06 Desktop (26 secs). Ubuntu 7.04 Desktop (26 secs). Xubuntu 7.04 Desktop (26 secs). Fedora 7 Live i686 (26 secs). Fedora 7 Live Kde i686 (26secs).
Pardus Calisan 2007.1 (27 secs).
UNDER 40 SECONDS. Linux Mint 3.0 (32 secs). Knoppix 5.1.1 (37 secs). Linux Mint 2.2 miniKDE (39 secs).
UNDER 50 SECONDS. Kubuntu 7.04 Desktop (46 secs).
PROBLEMATIC SHUTDOWN. Sabayon Linux 3.3b miniEdition. Grml 1.0.
By Michael Shee Choon Beng.
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