Re: Fast-booting Linux
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:44:51 -0700, jamesgoode wrote:
Hi,
I've been using Debian and Ubuntu Linuxes for some years now, and they
all work well, with one exception; they all take forever to boot, and
with a laptop that I need to get out and use quickly quite often, this
isn't very suitable, so I'm even considering switching my laptop back to
Windoze XP.
Could anybody recommend to me a distro which boots quickly? I don't
mind if it doesn't have a package manager, as long as it has Gnome or
XFCE by default or easily installable, all the programs I need are
Openoffice, an image viewer, and an IDE (that is easy to install
anyways).
I'm running Debian Etch on a Thinkpad 240X (P3 500MHz, 192MB RAM), and it
boots to the login prompt in 47 seconds. There's nothing installed on
the system that doesn't absolutely have to be there. I did the Base
Install, first, rebooted, then used Aptitude to install exactly what else
was needed. I use XFCE.
Stef
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