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The Great Boot Race

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64-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista, Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 fight it out for the fastest boot time on identical hardware.  
 
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ka17rim (4 days ago) Show Hide
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my windows vista boots 4.30 and i have doble processor and 4 giga ram
im changin to xp prefessional sp3
Ubunter7 (6 days ago) Show Hide
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У меня Ubuntu 9.10 за 15 секунд загружается, Виста - за 30.
My Ubuntu loads in 15 src, Win Vista - 30 sec.
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Did you calculated the fragmentation of the boot volumes? If not, then make the calculations and come back later...

With my hardware, and of course after defragmenting the boot volume (with name order..) :

Ubuntu 9.10 still stays with 40 secs but win7 decreases boot time to 40-43 secs ;) Ubuntu 9.04 makes 46-48 secs and vista becomes worst of all with ~55secs...

Sequential reading from the hard drive is one of the most effective thing to boot the computer up...
donthateme1210 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Guldaria:
a stupid linuxer?... A STUPID LINUXER?!?!?!? HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!! EVERY PERSON IN THE WORLD OWES THEIR LIFE TO EITHER PAUL HUDSON, MIKE SAUNDERS OR ANDREW GREGORY!!!! or err that umm other guy who err is a umm kde user *cough FAIL*. Yes, im talking to you Graham Morrison.
On a nicer note..... Awesome vid guys, just shows how much Linux and open source in general, kicks ass! :)
gck86 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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try google chrome next time .you will be shocked
schollidesign (1 week ago) Show Hide
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I belive that. My Ubuntu 9.10 is in 30s ready for go. WOW! It's a wonderful OS. It's so pretty, fast, without problems, no Viruses ...
galdariah (1 week ago) Show Hide
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v1y1 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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This is not true!!!!
Ubuntu 9.10 is the fastest OS!!!!
My loads just for 30 - 35 s.
BAMFMediaify (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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I make ubuntu linux videos as main priority check me out :)

Tips running games etc...
Sronpop (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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MY experience is completely different to say the least, I can only speak for windows now, but with vista its took 2:45 and with 7 its only 1:05 and thats from turning it on to a working browser, now granted I was running alot of start up files in vista while my 7 is relatively clean(a newer faster starting version of Firefox too)

Firefox is naively faster on linux based systems anyway, so there is a bit of a tilt in that direction from the start. What version of Firefox is it?

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