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Second Lucid Lynx alpha said to offer 15-second start-ups

The second alpha of Ubuntu 10.06 boasts 15-second boot-time, says an industry report. Meanwhile, the Ubuntu project posted a controversial survey about which proprietary apps might be considered for inclusion with the distro

Ubuntu’s Latest Alpha: 15-Second Boot Time

In looking at the first Alpha release of Ubuntu’s Lucid Lynx OS, or Ubuntu 10.04, the boot time on a PC built with an Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 at 2.80 GHz and 2 GB of RAM clocked in at 20 seconds.

How To Restore Grub in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

A common problem many users face after installing either Linux or Windows on a system when the other is already present is an override of the default boootloader.

Dual Boot Your Pre-Installed Windows 7 Computer with Ubuntu

You have a new computer that came with Windows 7 pre-installed on it, and you want to create a dual boot system so you can run Ubuntu Linux as well. Here we take you through the process to install Ubuntu on your pre-installed Windows 7 machine.

Change your Ubuntu splash screen background

There have been a lot of users complaining about the new Ubuntu 9.10 splash screen. First users are complaining that cosmetically it looks unprofessional and tacky. Second, there is no obvious way to configure this splash screen

Ubuntu 10.04 Already Shortens The Boot Time

One area that Canonical is focusing upon in particular with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is speeding up the boot process, so we decided to provide some benchmarks there too.

Speeding up the system boot up in ubuntu 9.10 using bum

For speed freaks, you could improve the boot up time using friendly GUI application, Ubuntu BootUp Manager or BUM in short. Using BUM you can make the PC load only those system services that you need, killing unnecessary ones.

Default Boot Specification with GRUB 2

The difficulty is that GRUB 2 regenerates its grub.cfg file, and during that generation it looks for additional Linux kernels in /boot and automatically includes any that it finds there.

Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu in Perfect Harmony

Windows 7 and Ubuntu, despite their opposing missions, can get along like best pals on a single computer. Here’s how to set up a dual boot system that lets you enjoy the best of both worlds in perfect harmony.

Customize Ubuntu 9.10’s Grub Boot Screen

The grub boot menu Ubuntu uses has bothered me since I first saw the SUSE implementation of grub. So, after installing the latest 9.10 beta, I decided it was time to figure out how to get rid of that awful black grub menu. Two days later, here is what I have figured out.

Ubuntu Tips – Boot Faster

With the amazing feats performed by Linux kernel developers over the years, you might be tempted to think that systems installed with the latest Ubuntu distribution are already running at the fastest possible speed. However, this is often not the case.

Ubuntu 9.10 boot optimizations: 5 second startup with an SSD

The latest Ubuntu 9.10 alpha release includes significant improvements to boot performance. Tests show that the popular Linux distribution can now boot in mere seconds on a computer with a solid state drive.

Ubuntu 9.10 boot optimizations: 5 second startup with an SSD

The latest Ubuntu 9.10 alpha release includes significant improvements to boot performance. Tests show that the popular Linux distribution can now boot in mere seconds on a computer with a solid state drive

Howto create an autostartup script for Debian and Ubuntu systems

You can make one autostartup script for ubuntu(debian) easily, and put commands to be started up automatically at boot.

Make Ubuntu Faster

Ubuntu is a GNU/Linux operating system and, as such, is quite fast, like other Linux systems when compared to Windows. But there are things that can make Ubuntu faster.

Ubuntu 9.10’s New X Based Boot Splash

xplash is the package in charge of the new boot splash and it is a userspace software that uses the X interface to draw a splash screen at boot before the desktop loads. See the video below to see it in action!

Checking In On Ubuntu Karmic’s Boot Time

By the time Ubuntu 10.04 LTS rolls around next April, Canonical is interested in seeing Ubuntu boot on an Intel Atom netbook (specifically the Dell Mini 9) in less than ten seconds.

Enable auto login in Ubuntu

If you are the only user on your Ubuntu system (or if you have a default user on a Ubuntu system that should always be the user logged in) then you might want to consider setting up auto login.

Measure Your Ubuntu System’s Boot Performance With Boot Chart

Ubuntu has the fastest boot time as compared to the other Linux based systems. Frankly speaking, the boot speed of Linux based systems depends upon different factors particularly the applications which we have configured to start on the system start up.

How to Login Without Entering Username and Password

You can enable auto login in Ubuntu using the following 3 simple steps. Please understand that it is not security best practices to enable the automatic login. Do this only if you are in a controlled environment and very confident that nobody will have physical access to the system except you.

Speed Up Your System With Preload On Ubuntu 9.04

This tutorial explains how you can install preload on Ubuntu 9.04. preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.

Sysvinit vs. Upstart: Boot Performance for Debian and Ubuntu

Developers from Debian and Ubuntu met and discussed ways to improve boot performance at Canonical’s London headquarters.

Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04

The developers behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution aim to significantly improve boot performance. Their ambitious goal for 2010 is to reduce total boot time to 10 seconds.

GRUB 2: the New Boot Loader in Ubuntu 9.10

One of the ideas was the “grub2-as-default” discussion, and Colin Watson had the pleasure to announce last night that GRUB 2 would definitely be the default boot loader in Ubuntu 9.10.

Ubuntu 8.10 bootup time compared with 9.04

One of the claimed features that made me upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 was the boot-up speed increases. Before the upgrade using Ubuntu 8.10 it took my computer 55 seconds to boot up to the login screen.

Jaunty boot up times

Charles Dickens wrote that “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. I have a feeling that he wasn’t referring to computer operating system boot times, but that’s what I’m going to discuss today. More specifically Ubuntu 9.04’s boot times.

Jaunty Boots 32% Faster on the MSI Wind

After reading about the blazing fast boot time of Ubuntu 9.04 on Matt Cutts’ blog, I decided it was worthwhile to go for the upgrade on my MSI Wind U100-432US. Before the upgrade I made sure to install bootchart and manually measure the boot time as well.

Ubuntu 9.04 boots in 17.5 seconds!

So how fast did Ubuntu 9.04 boot with a solid-state drive? Really freaking fast. Like, “I can’t believe it’s already done” fast. Well, here, watch for yourself:

Concurrent Booting: make full use of your dual-core, multithreaded or hyperthreaded processors in Ubuntu

This is a great way to make full use of your multi-core processors during boot time. I have an Intel core 2 duo processor and I have seen a notable change in boot time. Here’s the how-to:

Preventing a service from starting on Debian or Ubuntu

I have been tending to run MySQL on my computers for the purpose of Rails app development. However, for my laptop especially, I prefer if MySQL is not started by default. I prefer to start it manually if it’s needed.

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