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What is your boot time?
zridling:
Depends on the OS for me, and like so many others, boot-time is not that important to me. It would be if I used a portable (ASUS EEE) or laptop on the go, but it's really not a bragging-rights feature for me. Like mouser and darwin, I'm only rebooting when the machine tells me to.
Vista x64 — 1m,15s
Linux Mint — 55s
FreeBSD — 21s !!
Veign:
From when I enter my login password until I have a usable desktop in WinXP is 15s
zridling:
You guys don't auto-login?
Darwin:
In my case, I'm on a notebook and am often on work networks and infrequently on public networks away from home. I feel that I need the additional security of logging in with a password. I also have fast user switching disabled and force log-in to be via ctrl-alt-del...
Josh:
What most people fail to realize is what starts with the OS. On windows, most people have far more items that run on startup.
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