Mint vs 7: Speed Test

Jul 20, 2009

Mint vs 7: Speed Test

I've been saying on this blog that Windows 7RC takes "three minutes" to boot, while Linux Mint takes "a minute." I figure I should benchmark the two.

The Ready-to-Work Benchmark

I chose to time the following set of activities:

Start up operating system.
Connect wirelessly to the Internet.
Launch FireFox v3.5
Connect to My Yahoo.

I did a second timing as well: how long it took for each OS to shut down. Both OSs are running on my LG netbook.

Results

Mint Linux took 2:04 (min:sec) to complete the startup task; 0:19 to shut down.

Windows 7RC took 4:38 to complete the startup task; 0:36 to shut down.

Other distribtuions of Linux are even faster.

Posted at 03:19 AM | Permalink

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Jul 20, 2009