2 Jul
2004
2 Jul
'04
10:47 a.m.
There has been some recent discussion about how much faster Slackware seems to boot than other 'mainstream' distros. So I have installed Slack 9.1 alongside my current Mandrake 9.2 and compared boot times. This is on a Dell 2650 laptop with 384M RAM.
Boot to Login:
Slackware 45 secs Mandrake 52 secs
Note Mandrake has more services running e.g. CUPS and kudzu
Login to GUI up:
Slackware 25 secs Mandrake 40 secs
The main difference here is that Mandrake runs the NVidia driver which adds about 10 seconds.
Overall I conclude there is very little difference between them. If you subtract the 10 secs for NVidia from the Mandrake figures then the totals are:
Slackware 70 secs Mandrake 80 secs
Ian