How fast is Puppy Linux?

[mikeb]

shutting down.....

all around he 5-10 seconds mark...except NT4... thats an unreal 3 seconds.

If XP is slow to shut down stuck windows updates seem to be the most common cause.... another reason to disable it... my XP is 5-10 seconds like the others.

mike

[d4p]

Multi ISO booting USB 2.0 and testing from the same machine.
I think the test is fair enough.
XP is not for comparison, except all are full clean install.
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[RetroTechGuy]

No discussion of Puppy's "speed" should overlook how fast Puppy is when SHUTTING DOWN! I have used several different Puppies, from 4.1.2 to Slacko 5.6, all frugal installations, and every one has shut down and powered off in less than 10 seconds.

By comparison, it is not unusual for my WinXP machine to take over 3 minutes to shut down.

My shutdown on this laptop tends to be slow -- but I'm loading from a SD card in the side (and write speeds are not blistering on that).

[d4p]

So far the fastest puppy linux with kernel 3.10.1 booting time in 18 seconds.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/puppyru ... o/download

[Atle]

14.68 seconds

FatDog64 630rc1
Frugal
Intel® Core™ i5 2430M/2410M Processor
4 gig ram
ASUS U36SD

One might believe I either cheat to "win" here, but I dont. Neither do I have SSD. In a comment to James Bond, the main dev of FatDog64, I thanked him for saving me the investment of a SSD.

Going from other distro to FatDog64 felt like the days I had a SSD actually.

Anyhow. What is the difference of speed from normal installation to compared to frugal?

[veronicathecow]

Hi All frugal installs on SSD.Asus M4A78LT-M LE AMD 760G Socket AM3 3Ghz quad core Integrated ATI Radeon 3000 8 Gb RAM
Precise 17
Carolina 18
Carolina light 17
PclinuxOS 10
Windows Infinity, it's never gonna boot cause it aint never going on there!

[ThoriumBlvd]

Slacko-5.5XL, USB Flash, Atom N270, 1Gb RAM
Power Button ----> Desktop = 85 sec.

[Wognath]

Anyhow. What is the difference of speed from normal installation to compared to frugal?

In my case (Wary 5.5 on HD) Full 30s, Frugal 31s grub-to-desktop

[NickAu]

Boot time 19 seconds

2x Intel(R)Core(tm)CPU 6320@ 1.86 ghz

1 gig ram

Retro Precise 5.7.1 "Fatty"(boom-boom!)Full Install to Hard drive.

[neerajkolte]

cpu: intel i3
ram: 6gb
os: Fatdog64-630 final
installed media: 1gb old usb stick
install type: small intrid
savefile location: harddrive
Boot Time: 11s

I am new to Linux. I just installed fatdog because I had one old usb stick laying around. At first it used to take around 40s to boot, I asked in fatdog thread under puppy project section of forum. I immidiately got replies from fellow fatdog users to make fresh install And select small intrid.
And voila My system now boots in 11s.
This includes wait 5sec for dev.
I was so impressed that I went and bragged to my friends using XP and now my 2 friends have started using fatdog.

[rufwoof]

Boot Time: 40 seconds from start of ...vmlinux to GUI displayed

Version: Slacko 5.5 (PAE).
Installation type - Frugal, with 248MB unencrypted save.
RAM: 1.5 GB of RAM
Processor: AMD64 3500
Boot Device: DVD

SFS's:

devx_slacko_5.5
kernel_sources_3.4.17_slacko_PAE
virtualbox-4.3.4
openshot-1.4.3-slacko

PET's
at76c50x-usb-firmware (for Belkin wireless adapter)
nvidia_latest-304.64-3.4.17-PAE
PupsaveHotBackup-1.3
ffmpeg_vidcap-0.4

Takes a further 22 seconds to start VirtualBox and load up Windows XP from saved state.http://youtu.be/THhUmr5iZWc

[jp734]

Boot Time: 33.65 seconds (from the moment I hit return on grub menu to GUI desktop)
Version: Precise 5.7.1
Processor: Pentium M 1.5GHz
Laptop: IBM Thinkpad X41
RAM: 1GB
Boot Device: ATA Elite Pro Compact Flash card (using CFcard to IDE adapter)
Personal File: 1.2GB Unencrypted 4fs
SFS: LibreOffice 4.2

Not bad for a dino pc??? Considering I'm using a ghetto solid state drive...LOL