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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx vs Windows XP Startup & Shut Down Times






















                                                                 


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Recently I was experimenting with one of my old machines, with old I mean an Intel P4 @ 1.8Ghz, 1GB RAM, Intel 845G chip-set, 32MB on-board RAM, 120GB 7200rpm HDD.

OK I downloaded the latest Ubuntu 10.04 from Ubuntu site & did a clean install & downloaded the latest updates & fixes available & recorded the time which was:-

Cold Startup :- 57 seconds for login screen to appear
Shutdown:- 17 seconds

Now I reformatted it and did a clean install of XP SP3, then downloaded the latest patches & fixes available. These were the timings of XP on the same machine

Cold Startup:- 1 minute and 36 seconds
Shutdown:- 57 seconds

Wow comparing with above results the Ubuntu is really fast even on an old comupter it can be easily used to lease a new life to old computers.
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