I just did a couple of timings on Ubuntu 10.04 beta.
Installed on a 1.6ghz celeron with 512mb of ram.....
From BIOS passing control to the boot loader (grub)
On mains power - time to login prompt = 6 seconds, time to desktop = another 6 seconds.
On battery power - time to login prompt = 7 seconds, time to desktop = another 8 seconds.
Shutdown - 3 seconds !
Once you have typed your password at the login prompt you barely see the screen change, your then straight onto the desktop and off it all goes, quite staggering for speed.
Firefox 3.6 does not hang about either, it's more than a match for many a browser, pages flashing in front of your eyes - due to collaboration from Yahoo and Canonical the search page now defaults to Yahoo but that's easily sorted if you want google or something else.
I upgraded one machine from 9.10 to 10.04 and on another installed 10.04 from CD.
This looks like the definitive release for speed and features.
Nice touches:
Dell broadcom drivers, work easily (select restricted drivers and activate)
Disk utility checks your drive for any issues, allows simple formatting of volumes, integrity tests, performance monitoring etc.
Gwibber - allows you to update multiple social networking sites at the same time.
If you don't like the windows buttons being on the left "mac" style look for mwbuttons, this script can change them to any orientation you like.
I made a quick launch script in the applications menu (just paste the absolute path to mwbuttons i.e /home/kevin/mwbuttons and give the launcher a name).
Time to play a bit more on it.
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