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Booting With Mandriva's Speedboot

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Being worked on as part of Mandriva's next Linux distribution update is a technology they are referring to as Speedboot. Speedboot will be officially introduced with Mandriva Linux 2009.1, and compared to the normal boot process, it begins initializing some processes early on while it postpones other tasks until after the graphical display manager has shown. In essence, the user is logging into their Linux desktop even before the system is fully booted. We have some timed results of Mandriva's Speedboot along with videos showing the differences.

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Comments (4)

tracyanne ·
The Mandriva speed boot process doesn't seem to actually address boot speed, but instead performs som sleight of hand and brings up the desktop sooner, giving the impression of faster boot times.
jezuch ·
Just like Windows!
tracyanne ·
I wondered where I'd seen that before.
azerthoth ·
Any linux can be boot to GUI optimized. With Gentoo it's not even that difficult, move xdm to boot instead of default, figure out what services and processes that you want that can be shifted off a little bit and then sleep them for a few seconds. Pretty soon you have found that you have shaved what looks to be a very significant percentage of time off you boot.

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