Linked by David Donley on Wed 9th Jun 2004 18:53 UTC
I have been using Linux since 1993. I installed the first version of Slackware on a 16MB 386sx-25. Since then I have been using it almost exclusively on one or more of my PCs. So I consider myself as a bit of an expert. I have been using computers since 1982 mostly PCs, but also VAX mainframes and SPARC systems. Operating systems (and GUIs) I have been using include CP/M, DOS, Windows from Version 2 to XP, Geos, Beos, SCO Unix, Solaris, OS/2 and quite a few Linux Distros.
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you take about 90 seconds to get to kde ?
I was of course taking the 23 seconds timing from the point linux starts to load, not from hitting the power switch, as you will know that takes a few seconds, and grub defaults to a 10 second delay.
anyway, from "Linux Loading........." to kde takes 23 seconds.
You delays might be that you have services like webmin running on boot, or it could be a delay of your network card trying to detect the network... another thing.. Mandrake defaults for EXT3 for formatting partitions and this is usually 45% slower than a filesystem formatted in reiserfs.
Post more info or your set-up and we will try to sort things out for you.