Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice
John Reiser
jreiser at bitwagon.com
Mon Oct 11 16:14:28 UTC 2010
On 10/11/2010 03:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Some of the things [Ubuntu 10.10 installer] does which are IMHO better:
>
> - starts disk formatting / copying / installing in parallel
> with asking user questions
>
> - downloads updates in parallel too
What was the wall-clock duration from "Go!" to done?
Should be about 140 seconds for a 32X CD-ROM: (700MB / 5MB/s).
{Fetch_from_media_or_download, and uncompress_package_to_pieces_in_RAMfs}
parallelizes almost perfectly with package install, even with only one CPU.
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