I promised Michael to send this a while ago, but forgot to type it in from my notes.
I got an HP Mini netbook, a cute little black box of cuteness. Wanted to get one of the sexy orange Samsungs, but the keyboard is soooo bad, that an HP seemed better for my picky fingers.
Anyway.
I took some informal measurements of Windows 7's boot time. I took three timings with a stopwatch; all of them are in seconds:
1 2 3 average
From "BIOS disappears" to "mouse shows up" 19 17 18 17.0 From "mouse shows up" to "login screen" 5 6 5 5.3 From "enter after password" to "desktop" 12 7 7 8.7 From "click on Shutdown" to "screen turns off" 23 24 23 23.3
So... on average:
Boot to login screen - 22.3 sec (17.0 + 5.3)
Login to session - 8.7 sec
Shutdown - 23.3 sec
I'll measure Moblin soon.
Federico
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 18:43 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
I promised Michael to send this a while ago, but forgot to type it in from my notes.
Thanks :-) not as blindingly fast as I was worried about.
Regards,
Michael.
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 10:59 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
Thanks :-) not as blindingly fast as I was worried about.
There are some tricks that they pull to make the whole process *seem* faster. MacOS does the same:
* You never get prompted like with Grub; after the BIOS's POST screen disappears, you *think* that the "starting windows" progress bar appears instantaneously, when in reality it's probably giving you about a second to hit the magic hotkey for an interactive boot.
* No flicker when switching from the boot screen to the login screen --- we of course can do this now with KMS and all that.
* Whenever a video switch would occur, they first fade the screen to black, *then* do the video switch, then fade the screen back to normal. You only see a smooth transition instead of an abrupt jump.
* After you enter your login password, the login manager fades to black, then the desktop gets loaded, then it fades back to normal. You see your desktop icons and the Start bar immediately, from the beginning, without any "halfway-loaded" stage. We could totally do this with some help of gnome-session.
The summary is that they try to minimize abrupt transitions, by using fading and other visual tricks, and the end result is that you feel everything to be smooth and fast.
Federico
Hie,
2010/1/26 Federico Mena Quintero federico@novell.com:
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 10:59 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
Thanks :-) not as blindingly fast as I was worried about.
There are some tricks that they pull to make the whole process *seem* faster. MacOS does the same:
- You never get prompted like with Grub; after the BIOS's POST screen
disappears, you *think* that the "starting windows" progress bar appears instantaneously, when in reality it's probably giving you about a second to hit the magic hotkey for an interactive boot.
They do exactly the same with the Linpus Lite preinstalled on Acer Aspire One. You can't see any grub sreen. Just an Acer bootsplash right away after bios. Linpus is based on Fedora.
Jean Cayron
- No flicker when switching from the boot screen to the login screen ---
we of course can do this now with KMS and all that.
- Whenever a video switch would occur, they first fade the screen to
black, *then* do the video switch, then fade the screen back to normal. You only see a smooth transition instead of an abrupt jump.
- After you enter your login password, the login manager fades to black,
then the desktop gets loaded, then it fades back to normal. You see your desktop icons and the Start bar immediately, from the beginning, without any "halfway-loaded" stage. We could totally do this with some help of gnome-session.
The summary is that they try to minimize abrupt transitions, by using fading and other visual tricks, and the end result is that you feel everything to be smooth and fast.
Federico
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Hello all,
I measured Moblin 2.1 (running on a USB key) and Linpus Lite on an Ascer Aspire One.
From GRUB to Myzone/Desktop usable (mouse moves and you can launch a
program with an icon): Moblin= 26 sec, Linpus=12 sec
The batterylevel shows up and the network applets shows up: Moblin=0sec (instantly with Myzone), Linpus=18sec
The wifi is connected: Moblion=0sec (instantly with Myzone), Linpus=19sec.
From "Shutdown" button clicked to the power button is off: Moblin=20
sec, Linpus 17sec.
In summary, Myzone from Moblin is fully usable after a short 26 sec (without being prompted with password) and the Linpus Lite desktop is fully usable after a long 49 sec (which was still not bad with Fedora 8...)
Cheers,
Jean
2010/1/26 Federico Mena Quintero federico@novell.com:
I promised Michael to send this a while ago, but forgot to type it in from my notes.
I got an HP Mini netbook, a cute little black box of cuteness. Wanted to get one of the sexy orange Samsungs, but the keyboard is soooo bad, that an HP seemed better for my picky fingers.
Anyway.
I took some informal measurements of Windows 7's boot time. I took three timings with a stopwatch; all of them are in seconds:
1 2 3 average
From "BIOS disappears" to "mouse shows up" 19 17 18 17.0 From "mouse shows up" to "login screen" 5 6 5 5.3 From "enter after password" to "desktop" 12 7 7 8.7 From "click on Shutdown" to "screen turns off" 23 24 23 23.3
So... on average:
Boot to login screen - 22.3 sec (17.0 + 5.3)
Login to session - 8.7 sec
Shutdown - 23.3 sec
I'll measure Moblin soon.
Federico
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