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Boot Time
Booting Ubuntu from the comparatively slow micro hard drive takes rather long. While an average computer requires between 20 and 60 seconds to boot into a desktop OS, Ubuntu took between four and five minutes.
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Firefox
Asus NCL-DSDual Xeon 3.6 GHz1024 MB RAM
4:00
0:45
15s
Gigabyte 8i955X-RoyalP4 6601024 MB RAM
3:57
0:47
16s
Averatec NotebookPentium M 1300 MHz512 MB RAM
4:45
0:48
19s
Installed Applications
Ubuntu Linux comes with applications to address the vast majority of computing tasks.
The software packages includes Firefox for browsing, mail and instant messaging clients and even a client for Bittorrent.
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