Aby system nie czuł się zbytnio wyobcowany, wybrałem system plików ex4 oraz doinstalowałem mainline kernel w wersji 2.6.29-020629rc7-generic. Sprzęt chodzi, nie zaliczył jeszcze żadnej niestabilności/zawieszenia/restartu, ot staropolskie przysłowia są mądrością narodu
Cóż, nie będę się rozwodził, tylko od razu przejdę do tego, co jest meritum – czasy!

Jeszcze z kronikarskiego obowiązku – sprzęt to HP dc5800dS9 z procesorem Intel E8400 i 2GB RAM.

System bez modyfikacji z zainstalowanymi kilkoma aplikacjami – czas startu 16 sekund

System po lekkim liftingu wyłączenie głównie usług, z których na pewno nie korzystam lub bardzo sporadycznie – czas startu 14 sekund

System po poważniejszym liftingu czyli zostawione niezbędne minimum – czas startu 13 sekund

Do całej procedury nie trzeba jakiejś specjalnej wiedzy i umiejętności, no może poza zgłębieniem tematu ‘runlevel services’. Narzędzia potrzebne do całej zabawy:
- płyta instalacjyna z Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha
- mainline kernel
- narzędzie do edycji ‘runlevel services’ – sysv-rc-conf
- narzędzie Boot chart do pomiaru czasu startu

Krótko podsumowując – jest szybko a jakby jeszcze popracować nad kernelem, dostosowując go do swojego sprzętu, to myślę, że można urwać jeszcze z wyników nawet z 2 albo 3 sekundy. Tym samym miłego tuningowania życzę.

Aktualizacja: Usunąłem wszystkie numerki, które mogłby świadczyć o jakiejś konkretnej wersji Alpha, ponieważ niektórzy mają z tym poważne problemy natury klasycznej Chciałbym tutaj dodać, że artykuł miał za zadanie, pokazać jak szybko, na dosyć nowym i mocny komputrze, startuje kolejna, zbliżająca się wersja Ubutnu i niczego więcej nie ma sensu się doszukiwać.

A tutaj wrzucam jej pełną zawartość:

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Gdzie jest haczyk? Wersja tańsza ma dysk SSD o pojemności 12GB, droższa 20GB. Cóż, jednak na półce, klient przede wszystkim najpierw popatrzy na cenę. Już teraz patrząc na oferty, Asus EEE w wersji pierwszej, np BestBuy widzimy, że cenowo jest tak samo. Z tego co można wyszperać w Google wynika, że również druga wersja EEE w Europie ma być identyczna cenowo dla różnych systemów operacyjnych. Tego, dlaczego ASUSTeK zdecydował się na taki a nie inny model sprzedaży, możemy się tylko domyślać. Wydaję mi się że należy poczekać i zobaczyć jak to wszystko będzie wyglądać w praniu i na ibaju*

* zmodyfikowano na potrzeby rymu