Re: Windows boot takes HOW long?! (Was re: [school-discuss] Re: M$ Windows 7 - probably didn't brag enough about FOSS)

[Tim Dressel <tjdressel@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've got IBM P3 1000's with 1GB SDRAM that boot Windows 7 from 40GB
IDE disks in under 2 minutes (to the desktop, system usable). These
computers were given to us by Computers for Schools two years ago
after being used at a provincial power generation utility. The same
machines running Kubuntu boot to usable desktop in about 90 seconds.

I've got 30 Acer 751 Atom based netbooks that boot Windows 7 in under
45 seconds.

The only thing I've seen Windows boot that slowly is having
insufficient RAM, like 64MB on a P3 1000 would easily take XP to boot
in 10-ish minutes. I would assume that Linux is probably the same, but
I've never tried it. Hard to make comparisons with no comparable
background. Just becomes speculation.


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Bill Kendrick <nbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:07:21PM -0700, Marilyn Hagle wrote:
>> My colleagues using Windows are waiting 15 minutes to boot up and 10
>> minutes to get into their new typing tutor program.
>
> Wow!  I know Windows boots slowly, but what kind of systems are these,
> and what version of Windows?  Is there a reason they're booting from
> scratch, rather than keeping the systems running (or suspended, when not
> being used) all day long?  Do the kids each have accounts on the systems
> that they need to log into?
>
>
> My own anecote: I had a 1 or 1.5GHz laptop at my last job, with
> WindowsXP, and it would take a few minutes to boot up and provide a
> login prompt.  Then many minutes more to log me in and get to a state
> where I could actually _interact_ with the desktop, launch
> applications, etc.  It was the time I'd spend schmoozing with
> co-workers and making myself a cup or two of coffee.
> Still not 10-15min though!
>
> And FWIW, my 1yo, 2GHz Kubuntu laptop running KDE 4.3 is slow compared to
> what I was used to with KDE 3.5 on that aforementioned work laptop, but
> still not as slow as Windows was on it.
>
> -bill!
>