Kind of reminds me of gOS. Looks interesting, although like gOS it wants to be a social OS. I'm not to interested in the social networking angle of these OS's. --Manny
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Michael Gorman <[email protected]> wrote: > I use Jolicloud on my netbook and it starts up pretty quickly. > I believe it was based on ubuntu as well, but it has very narrow support for > only specific netbooks, and you have sign up and wait to get invited into > the beta for it. > Michael Gorman > http://michaeljgorman.com > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Manny <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Update, >> No luck with Linpus... >> The image was for the AspireOne netbook only. >> >> I installed xubuntu in a rush last night and only after I was done did >> I realize it was regular xubuntu and not eeexubuntu that has all the >> drivers for wifi etc. >> >> I'm at a coffee shop now and just built the drivers from scratch. I >> was impressed that xubuntu had full development tools included. >> Too many distros do not even include gcc in the basic install. >> >> Luckily I had a folder with the madwifi driver source on my sd card. >> Took about 10 mins to build, install and connect. >> >> This version of xubuntu is based on ubuntu 9.04. >> Even this seems faster than NBR. >> >> I'll see if I can optimize it a bit to lower the boot times. I need >> to establish a benchmark first. >> >> Later... >> --Manny >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: >> > http://bit.ly/Gc1sa >> > >> > This article shows you options to increase the speed with which Linux >> > boots, including two options for parallelizing the initialization >> > process. It also shows you how to visualize graphically the >> > performance of the boot process (ie. bootchart). >> > >> > chris... >> > >> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:13 PM, John Rivera <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> hmm, it looks very interesting, im installing right now >> >>> >> >>> You can use bootchart to see where things are taking the most time >> >>> too, >> >>> http://www.bootchart.org/ >> >>> http://www.bootchart.org/images/bootchart.png >> >>> >> >>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:11 AM, John Rivera <[email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> > if you want a fast boot you might want to compile all the programs >> >>> >> yourself(including the kernel), linux from scratch and gentoo are >> >>> >> good >> >>> >> for >> >>> >> that, also ubuntu 9.10(beta) boots much faster than 9.04, even >> >>> >> the net-book remix >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >Most of these recommendations are old school (been around for >> >>> >> > awhile) >> >>> >> >and as such should be safe. >> >>> >> > >> >>> >> >Thanks for the article, I know that some distros do some of these >> >>> >> >optimizations on their own, but lately I haven't checked. I was >> >>> >> > even >> >>> >> >thinking about reinstalling the original OS to my EeePC because >> >>> >> > the >> >>> >> >Ubuntu NBR I'm using takes way to long to boot. >> >>> >> > >> >>> >> >I'm know downloading Linpus Lite to check the performance of that >> >>> >> >distro. I'll likely use some of the optimizations in the article >> >>> >> > ;-) >> >>> >> > >> >>> >> >--Manny >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to >> > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." >> > -Roger Penrose >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LinuxUsers mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
