Almost every system I use on my shitty computer is faster than this... I don't think i want to try gentoo very much... I will stick with: Ubuntu, Jolicloud, Windows 7, Watt OS, & Fedora =)
kdm autologin? that's the biggest feature over gdm. My underpackaged debian with kde 3.5 booted in ~25secs on a very old 800MHz Pentium 3 laptop with 128 MB sdram.
Shame on you, that5 you made a gentoo, which boots MUCH slower then a real desktop linux. basically KDE3.5=fastest startup ever
first of all: it's not really optimized, second of all he included POST (which you usually don't if you want to compare it to different PCs) and last but not least he uses crappy KDE, which is slow as shit anyway.
kde 3.5 is much faster and more stable then gnome, but now it's outdated. But kde4 is much slower then gnome (but better imho, and it takes 3-5 more seconds to autologin to my kde4 in my arch
what do you mean by "more stable"? I haven't been able to crash gnome like ever. Also I never bothered to really use a KDE version after mhm ~ 3.2 or so. But by the looks I don't like where KDE is going (and I don't like where Ubuntu Users want Gnome to go to).
Why dont you just say it? Save us all the trouble of guessing whats on your mind, you dont want Gnome to look like *gasp* Windows!
I agree with you on that and i would hate to find out that Windows and Linux has some comparisons other than expected. But i dont think gnome will ever look like Win, KDE(BLAH+PUKE) Well thats just another story ;o)
Some distros have a "failsafe" option in GDM/KDM. If you choose this option, you'll be presented with a terminal. This may be what you're looking for.
You don't need a gui to listen to mp3, look up ncmpcpp and mpd. There exist minimalist gui's, search for awesome, xmonad and other tiling windowmanagers.
Hey just figured id let u know about the vid driver. You can actually google laptopvideo2go and should find an updated driver there if you still happen to have this laptop.
Sadly for windows only but they have custom INF's for practically every win OS that can run on this laptop.
You're right, except that it's host support for VMWare, so I can run an OSX guest. Linux, however, is running directly on hardware, and isn't virtualized at all.
I don't doubt you can get faster, I didn't do any speed optimizations, and started a bunch of servers. The nVidia driver takes a while to kick in, hence the delay starting X.
Did you do anything to gentoo to decrease boot time? (i.e. the obvious disable unneeded services?) Just curious. My boot from grub to firefox is ~1 min (I use sys v init)
Nope. I use OpenRC, and at that point it was set up for serial init instead of parallel. There was probably plenty of things I could have done to speed it up, but I didn't make any attempts to.
With my eeepc i boot debian in 1:20 Gentoo will boot much faster !
firmware21 1 year ago
Ubuntu lite 34 seconds during boot on my laptop ( IBM T40, 700 Mib ram, 1500 Mhz Pentium IV, 40 Gib Hdd, 8 Mib Ati Mobil radeon :) )
Hypercubi 1 year ago
so slow boot :(
pavelpronskiy 1 year ago 2
Why there is no flash player for Linux 64bit ?
This is Ridiculous!!!! We must do something.
aweinsto 1 year ago
Almost every system I use on my shitty computer is faster than this... I don't think i want to try gentoo very much... I will stick with: Ubuntu, Jolicloud, Windows 7, Watt OS, & Fedora =)
TheGreatBunghole16 2 years ago
@TheGreatBunghole16 yeah gentoo is for geeks only you configure it yourself you build the system by yourself lol
xxterry1xx 2 years ago
kdm autologin? that's the biggest feature over gdm. My underpackaged debian with kde 3.5 booted in ~25secs on a very old 800MHz Pentium 3 laptop with 128 MB sdram.
Shame on you, that5 you made a gentoo, which boots MUCH slower then a real desktop linux. basically KDE3.5=fastest startup ever
nantocsem 2 years ago
What's so special about KDM autologin that makes it superior to GDM autologin?
xqyzii 2 years ago 2
Eh? Last i checked, both had auto login.
Arkaniad 2 years ago
My bad, yes, both have, but KDM's one is easier to find (I've found it on the 2nd day of use and I didn't find gnome's one for 4 weeks)
nantocsem 2 years ago
Fedora 11 boots up in 20 seconds
NARKOZ2008 2 years ago
my fedora 10 boots in 9min 26 sec!
Boring...
Macintosh3745 2 years ago
Put that piece of $H!T in the garbage.
Arkaniad 2 years ago
Configure openrc to run all services simultaneously
antiurban 2 years ago
Man.. even windows start's more faster! :-) What the hell do you do to you're Gentoo? My Debian in 20 - 25 second is ready!
VdueperdueV 2 years ago
first of all: it's not really optimized, second of all he included POST (which you usually don't if you want to compare it to different PCs) and last but not least he uses crappy KDE, which is slow as shit anyway.
xqyzii 2 years ago 3
kde 3.5 is much faster and more stable then gnome, but now it's outdated. But kde4 is much slower then gnome (but better imho, and it takes 3-5 more seconds to autologin to my kde4 in my arch
nantocsem 2 years ago
what do you mean by "more stable"? I haven't been able to crash gnome like ever. Also I never bothered to really use a KDE version after mhm ~ 3.2 or so. But by the looks I don't like where KDE is going (and I don't like where Ubuntu Users want Gnome to go to).
xqyzii 2 years ago 5
Why dont you just say it? Save us all the trouble of guessing whats on your mind, you dont want Gnome to look like *gasp* Windows!
I agree with you on that and i would hate to find out that Windows and Linux has some comparisons other than expected. But i dont think gnome will ever look like Win, KDE(BLAH+PUKE) Well thats just another story ;o)
dellthinker 2 years ago
hi is it possible to use it without any gui, but be able to use firefox and watch movies and listen to mp3 ?
basically i want the feel of just terminal. no other fancy graphic interface and shit like that.
downwiz2 2 years ago
Some distros have a "failsafe" option in GDM/KDM. If you choose this option, you'll be presented with a terminal. This may be what you're looking for.
qbasicer 2 years ago
you can listen to mp3s @ the command line but Firefox requires X to be running. There are command line browsers though check out links and lynx
icfnord 2 years ago
well i am using ubuntu.. however i am still looking to turn this into a terminal only gui.
downwiz2 2 years ago
you mean like a kiosk?
icfnord 2 years ago
If you still need help with this let me know it's easy.
vwbond 2 years ago
You don't need a gui to listen to mp3, look up ncmpcpp and mpd. There exist minimalist gui's, search for awesome, xmonad and other tiling windowmanagers.
1r0bin1 2 years ago 2
is they for Ubuntu or gentoo? i need it for ubuntu
downwiz2 2 years ago
Hey just figured id let u know about the vid driver. You can actually google laptopvideo2go and should find an updated driver there if you still happen to have this laptop.
Sadly for windows only but they have custom INF's for practically every win OS that can run on this laptop.
ManaVampire 2 years ago
how come soo slow?
hersheybar11 3 years ago
Can't read? Shame.
qbasicer 3 years ago
vmware detected.
caarlos00 3 years ago
You're right, except that it's host support for VMWare, so I can run an OSX guest. Linux, however, is running directly on hardware, and isn't virtualized at all.
qbasicer 3 years ago
@qbasicer
Interesting, can you explain this?
wei00007 1 year ago
pop a 7200RPM HD with 16MB buffer and your boot will be even faster. These Toshiba's have 5400RPM drives with 4 or 8MB buffer
bobbytomorow 3 years ago
I get 12 seconds.
HaXiT 3 years ago
With arch from grub.
HaXiT 3 years ago
I don't doubt you can get faster, I didn't do any speed optimizations, and started a bunch of servers. The nVidia driver takes a while to kick in, hence the delay starting X.
qbasicer 3 years ago
Ye the nvidia driver is a b*tch
HaXiT 3 years ago
Yeah, but it's actually a way better than ATI ones
kl0xY 3 years ago
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Check out my latest vid to see the startup.
HaXiT 3 years ago
Also your from ottawa!! Damn!!! I am also from ottawa :P Ottawa linux users ftw :D
HaXiT 3 years ago
Did you do anything to gentoo to decrease boot time? (i.e. the obvious disable unneeded services?) Just curious. My boot from grub to firefox is ~1 min (I use sys v init)
1337notl33t 3 years ago
Nope. I use OpenRC, and at that point it was set up for serial init instead of parallel. There was probably plenty of things I could have done to speed it up, but I didn't make any attempts to.
qbasicer 3 years ago
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I should show you what I'm using to type this very comment!
coffee115 3 years ago
What are you using?
SSiteSmiley 3 years ago
Deeeeeebian lol
coffee115 3 years ago
so I'm using Ubuntu (Debian based)
SSiteSmiley 3 years ago