20090814 GNULinux No Longer a Game of Just a Few

From s5h.net

Sharma: Big-Name Distro Disenchantment

The results are plain to see. All three of the big names – Fedora 11 ‘Leonidas’, Ubuntu ‘Jaunty Jackalope’ and Mandriva 2009.1 ‘Spring’ – have taken different approaches to reducing boot times, and boy has it worked. Booting up is also much cleaner, with service start-up messages hidden behind beautifully crafted splash screens. The desktop itself loads in about 30 seconds, and the remainder continues to load in the background, which is exactly how things should be.

http://www.pcplus.co.uk/node/3099/

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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=841

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