Comment 16 for bug 3485

I've no bootcharts, but a year-old Pentium M 1.6GHz laptop, 5400 rpm hdd, 512MB RAM was used for the following timings.
* Breezy:
grub to gdm: 71s
(gdm to desktop: 30s)
* Dapper Feb 14th:
grub to gdm: 50s
(gdm to desktop: 25s)

The original bug report and the bootcharts are a bit confusing - which are the timings to actually compare, there's quite a different trend between the boot charts and the timings reported in the bug description? The boot charts' times favor Mandriva more.

But if taking the timings from the bootcharts (mandriva 34s, ubuntu breezy 70s) and seeing the difference in favor of Mandriva in those, ie. ~50%, it would seem like Dapper is not yet near Mandriva - currently ca. 30% improvement over Breezy. It might be different on a non-laptop (read: faster hard drive), but 3X faster sounds like very unbeliavable difference unless something was more like broken in breezy for the configuration.

As a sidenote, Gnome startup time was a disappointment, as it doesn't seem to have improved much despite all the talk that's been going on about it.