WOW Gentoo is fast....

Phoenix591 · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 493

This morning I decided to clock my install's boot. It only took about 15 (but on retimeing, 22) seconds to get to a full and ready KDE 4 (trunk) desktop

. This is with a single core 2.4Ghz Athlon64 and only 512Mb ram. How fast have you gotten your computer to boot (no servers plz, we know they boot fast) post specs if you post a time.

MannyNix · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 24

If you like speed you'll enjoy lighter and faster wms like fluxbox also here and all the *box scene. Blackbox, Openbox, etc. I think fluxbox is easy to get started. Another fast ones are wmii and the likes.
Some nice reading is Penguin Pete's X Window Manager and Desktop Environment Guide
Good day

psomas · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

Phoenix591 · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 493

good suggestions, but I'm particularly attracted to KDE .

Non_E · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject:

My kdm starts in 80 seconds since I press the power. This includes 30 seconds of POST and sata tests, grub menu with password and two dm_crypt passwords (secure long passwords :-)

). I use athlon-xp@1833, 2*512MB DDR RAM.
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sundialsvc4 · Guru Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 436

Non_E · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject: