Is Fedora’s Boot Time Increasing?

“The last time we closely examined the boot performance of
Fedora Linux was in 2008 when comparing the boot times from Fedora
Core 4 through Fedora 8. However, with more distributions taking
pride in recent months over shortening their boot time — with
Canonical for example having worked towards a ten second Ubuntu
boot time — we decided to see how long it’s taking Fedora to put
its hat on these days. With the three Intel notebooks we used from
our recent Fedora power consumption review, we measured the boot
times using Bootchart on the Fedora 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 Alpha
releases.

“For those that did not get a chance yet to examine the results
from our Fedora battery power testing below are the hardware
configurations for the three ThinkPad notebooks that were used for
this testing.”

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