"I did the test by installing the three distributions through
Parallels Desktop virtual machine utilizing the same configuration
on my Mac (Macbook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo). Note that I
decided to use Xubuntu to give some variation on desktop
environment as we already have GNOME in F10 and KDE in PCLOS
2009.
"To measure the boot speed, I started the timer immediately
after GRUB, and then stopped it until the desktop has loaded
completely.
"Now if you are ready for our boot speed war, see the clips
below:"