Ubuntu 18.10 Will Boot Faster, Thanks to LZ4 Initramfs Compression by from on 2018-03-21 19:31 (#3JQPE) If you plan on upgrading to the forthcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system this spring, chances are your computer will boot a little faster thanks to the implementation of a stronger compression algorithm for the initial ramdisk.