Newest Peppermint Ice boots in 10 seconds!

[SickBeast]

I just installed it and on my Opteron 165 rig running a 320gb WD 7200RPM hard drive I'm booting up in 10 seconds flat! This is insane!

I think I've found my new distro of choice.

 

[lxskllr]

Isn't that stripped down to be mostly "cloud" packages? I tried it briefly in a VM, but I didn't care for it much.

 

[SickBeast]

Isn't that stripped down to be mostly "cloud" packages? I tried it briefly in a VM, but I didn't care for it much.

It is, but once you install OpenOffice and VLC you're pretty much good to go.

By default you can do anything you would do with a full blown distro anyways; you just go about it in a different way.

I honestly didn't think I'd see a true 10 second boot on such a complex OS just yet.

 

[Crusty]

All of my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS servers boot in 10s. Not sure what the big deal is.

 

[SickBeast]

All of my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS servers boot in 10s. Not sure what the big deal is.

Well, on my system Ubuntu 10.10 takes over 30 seconds. Mint LXDE takes 20 seconds. For Peppermint Ice to give me essentially Mint LXDE in half the boot time, I find it an amazing accomplishment.

Do your servers have 15K cheetahs? I've never seen a full blown Ubuntu installation boot up in 10 seconds. The developers even admitted to failing at their 10 second goal for 10.04.

 

[Crusty]

Well, on my system Ubuntu 10.10 takes over 30 seconds. Mint LXDE takes 20 seconds. For Peppermint Ice to give me essentially Mint LXDE in half the boot time, I find it an amazing accomplishment.

Do your servers have 15K cheetahs? I've never seen a full blown Ubuntu installation boot up in 10 seconds. The developers even admitted to failing at their 10 second goal for 10.04.

Nope, these are running off of a shared 4x1TB 7200rpm RAID 10 on VMWare ESXi 4.0. From BIOS splash to login prompt is right around 10s, using a stopwatch.

 

[SickBeast]

Nope, these are running off of a shared 4x1TB 7200rpm RAID 10 on VMWare ESXi 4.0. From BIOS splash to login prompt is right around 10s, using a stopwatch.

You probably have a faster computer than me overall then.

Plus there's the fact that Peppermint Ice would boot in 5 seconds on your computer.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally Posted by SickBeast
I just installed it and on my Opteron 165...

This is totally OT, but...

I think I'm going to switch to an Opteron (on my desktop) on the next build.

We're running dual Opterons 242s on our production web server, and that thing flies!

Over 80% of the world's fastest computers run Linux (SOURCE | CHART).

THE world's fastest computer runs 37376 hex-core Opteron 2435s via Linux (SOURCE).

Anyway, nice boot times!

 

[VinDSL]

Well, on my system Ubuntu 10.10 takes over 30 seconds.[...]

I'm in the low 20s under Ubu 10.10, on my aging hot rod...

Intel ® P4 Extreme Edition 3.4 (Gallatin) || DFI ® LanParty PRO875B rev B1
Crucial ® Ballistix Tracer PC4000 1GB || Mountain Mods U2-UFO Opti-1203
XFX 7600GT 560M AGP (PV-T73A-UDF3) || Ultra X-Connect XVS 600W PS

ureadahead is wasting a lot of time, doing whatever it does...


BTW, if you guys are tired of guesstimating your boot times...

Just install bootchart & pybootchartgui through apt-get, aptitude, synaptic or whichever method you like.

The bootchart PNG will be automagically created in the /var/log/bootchart/ directory, every time you boot up.

It's more accurate than (ahem) stopwatches, makes an excellent tool for tweaking your system (or diagnosing problems), and provides proof (to backup claims).

I, of course, believe everything I read on the web. Just saying...

 

[RyanGreener]

Peppermint Ice is awesome. It's the first distro that has EVERYTHING working on my laptop, and it's fast. Just installed Pidgin and a view other things and it's even better.

 

[mundane]

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[TBSN]

10 seconds? NICE.

I'm a linux newbie so that blows me out of the water. I am jumping back into linux because XP is so damn ugly on my secondary computer, and Microsoft royally screwed me out of my Win7 license.