"Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system. Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster than those possible with Windows XP? Something obviously went awry. As Computerworld is reporting, a number of Vista users are none too happy about Vista boot-up times. Some are questioning whether Microsoft is advocating that users just put Vista into sleep mode, as opposed to shutting down systems on a daily basis, to mask the sluggish boot up."
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In OSNews, one is called trolling if he bashed linux, any distro, eventhough it's true. It will be modded down instantly to make it disappear. Bashing windows at any topics will give one +5 mod up (see 2nd comment and its reply). Deep thinking, carefully written comment receive at max +3 mod up.
Edited 2007-04-12 04:53
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It is trolling because the article isn't about a Windows vs. Linux comparison, but rather a XP vs. Vista comparison, and the failed promise that boot times would be drastically lowered with Vista.
By the way, when you get to the desktop in Windows the system is still booting - there's plenty of stuff that isn't loaded yet...and it is possible to boot a command-line Linux in less than five seconds, IIRC...
Member since:2005-11-30
suryad, you ask how he is trolling ? well, i think you need to see the movie " monty python the holy grail" and observe very closely the witch scene. ( q. how do you she's a witch ? a. because she looks like one ! ) anyway, that's my take on why jebb thinks tmanop2006 is a troll.
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2006-10-10
I had a dual boot [for a while, until I realized that Fedora was useless] with Vista and Fedora on an HP nc8430. Vista booted in about the time you mentioned...13 - 15 seconds [after bios] to a logon prompt. Fedora took 45 seconds. I'm sure if I read manuals, recompiled code, Googled for a few hours, and played with "*.conf" files I could have reduced the boot time, but I actually have to work.
Edited 2007-04-11 18:12