Star Mandrake 10: A Long Time User's Experiences
Linked by David Donley on Wed 9th Jun 2004 18:53 UTC
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 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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Boot to login
by beetman on Thu 10th Jun 2004 20:58 UTC

I noticed some comments on the boot speed of Mandrake 10, so I went upstairs to test this on my daughter's PC before she comes back rom school, at which point her room will be the usual teenage bedroom - no admitance to geezers.

Her PC specs:

Duron - 950MHz
Memory - 320
Video - ATI 8MB
HDD - 6.4GB (5400 RPM, UDMA)
Sound - on board
Ethernet - on board
Screen resolution: 1024x768 @ 64K colors

Tested and perdormed as follows:

1. Power on and wait for Mandrake boot screen. I didn't measure this stage as it depends on hardware, bios, whether disks are autodetected or defined by the user etc.
2. In graphical boot screen hit ENTER.
3. As the boot starts hit ESC to see verbose mode (just for kicks)
4. Graphical desktop login screen shows up and ready for input
5. Click the user name in login screen
6. Type in password.
7. Hit ENTER (or click LOGIN button).
8. Wait for KDE desktop to be up and running

I didn't measere the entire process becaus some of the steps depend on issues beyond the ciontrol of the operatind system, such as BIOS hardware detection or typing in passwords.


My tiems were as follows:
step 2 to 4 = 65 seconds
step 7 to 8 = 19 seconds
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total 84 seconds


One more test I did was the time to load OpenOffice, which took 35 seconds.