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After reading this article on optimizations made to Ubunbtu 9.10 in relation to the boot time I thought I would check this out in a virtual machine.

I understand that much of the work done will help when booting from an SSD drive and using a virtual machine adds an extra layer between the OS and the bare metal but I though it would be interesting to compare the boot time to Fedora 11, that I also have installed in a VM.

Setting Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 and Fedora 11 up in identical virtual machines, both set to auto login with bootchart installed I was very surprised by the results.

Ubuntu booted in between 1 minute and 1 minute 6 seconds while Fedora 11 booted in between 32 and 34 seconds. This is by no means a controlled test and Ubuntu is still in alpha status but I was pretty shocked by the results. Hopefully by it’s release it will be booting in the sub 30 seconds range.