[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“Canonical has already come close to achieving this
with the Ubuntu 9.04 release earlier this year, but how is Ubuntu
9.10 changing the boot time with defaulting to the EXT4 file-system
and their other ongoing changes? In this article, we have
re-installed Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04, and a 9.10 development snapshot on
two netbooks and one laptop to see how Ubuntu’s boot time is
changing.“The testing for this article was very simple. We performed
clean installations of Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04, and 9.10 (using a daily
LiveCD from 2009-08-25) on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9, Samsung NC10,
and a Lenovo ThinkPad T60. Once the installation was complete, we
installed Bootchart and that was the only change made to any of the
distributions. After that and a few reboots later, we had our
Bootchart numbers and then proceeded to test the next Ubuntu
release in the same fashion.”