[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“Last year leading up to the release of Ubuntu 7.04 ‘Feisty
Fawn’ and Ubuntu 7.10 ‘Gutsy Gibbon’ we had published several
articles looking at various aspects of this desktop Linux
distribution. These articles had varied from looking at Ubuntu’s
power consumption for the past six major releases to presenting the
visual history of Ubuntu and how its graphics have evolved since
Ubuntu 4.10. With Ubuntu 8.04 ‘Hardy Heron’ shipping in just two
months, we are once again looking at Ubuntu from several points of
view. In this article, we are looking at Ubuntu’s boot performance
for the past five releases through the use of Bootchart for
measuring its boot time, disk throughput, and the running
processes…”
Related Story:
Comparing
Distribution Boot Times(Aug 24, 2007)