I’ve been interested in the way different distributions handle boot time lately, and with openSUSE’s recent and very impressive boot time improvements I thought I’d make a few extra comparative statistics using bootchart.

So the distributions I tried are openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1, Fedora 7, PCLinuxOS 2007, Kubuntu Tribe 4 and Mandriva 2008 Beta 1. What I found was that there was very little, if anything, between the boot up times of the various distributions. On my laptop however, openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 came out as the fastest with the same impressive 27s!

Here is the run-down with bootcharts: