Although, you are free to review results as they were before hardware change.
Different versions of Linux have different boot time.
Here is a table where you can compare this time. Conditions of the run are described in one of my posts.
| System | Boot source | Time | Comments |
| Ubuntu 10.10 | HDD | 65 sec | |
| Kubuntu 10.10 | HDD | 68 sec | |
| Ubuntu 11.04 | HDD | 43 sec | |
| Trinity Kubuntu 10.10 | USB | 110 sec | |
| Puppy 5.1.1 | HDD frugal install | 61 sec | With KDE 3.5.12 which is not standard for Puppy |
| Fluppy 010 | USB | 57 sec | |
| Damn Small Linux (DSL) | CD | 90 sec | With SATA support, no network |
| Fedora 13 | USB | 107 sec | |
| Fedora 14 | CD | 224 sec | Network without Internet |
| Fedora 15 KDE | USB | 137 sec | |
| SLAX | USB | 70 sec | |
| Porteus | USB | 50 sec | |
| CentOS 5.5 | CD | 227 sec | No network |
| CentOS 5.6 | CD | 224 sec | No network |
| CentOS 6.0 | USB | 81 sec | |
| Linux Mint 10 Julia | CD | 196 sec | No network |
| Linux Mint XFCE (Debian) | USB | 67 sec | No network |
| PC Linux OS 2010.12 LXDE | CD | 226 sec | |
| xPUD | CD | 69 sec | |
| Debian | HDD | 55 sec | |
| Mandriva 2010.2 KDE | CD | 413 sec | |
| Mandriva 2011 | USB | 213 sec | No network |
| Mageia 1 KDE | HDD | 66 sec | |
| CTK Arch 0.7 | USB | 65 sec | Manual network restoring after boot |
