El Jueves, 11 de Noviembre de 2004 21:40, David Robertson escribió:
I don't run Windows at all now, but on any machine I've had both XP and Linux installed, Linux is slower to boot to a full runlevel 5.
I supose one could check to see what is being loaded, and is it something you actually use?
That was part of my point - I disable everything I don't use in Linux. Its not so easy to do that in XP, so a lot of unnecessary stuff gets loaded/started, but its still faster. I don't use KDE because it is just too slow: I prefer Gnome or Windowmaker - at least we have a choice of desktops. I'm certainly no lover of MS but I think it is important that we don't make invalid criticisms: there's enough of that coming the other way.
I've read almost all of this thread. The discussion about booting, starting, and shutting down/rebooting is just too slow, and many peopel have been trying to explain why that happens... I've also been dealing with this. As most of you, I don't mind that my box takes some mins to boot and then nearly 3/5 of a min to load KDE. I'm used to it, even if I start-stop the PC at least once a day! But as most of you, I feel that it there's no valid reason for this to happend. For example, from loading the kernel to showing the KDM, SuSE ussually takes ~ 1 m 50 s. And that happens in every pc I've installed and configured with more or less the same services and the same distro-version... More or less the same amount of time ussually takes VidaLinux to boot from loading the kernel to GDM with everything started, a (Gentoo linux distro + prebuilt packages + RedHat Graphical installer). Guess what ? I managed to reduce that time to an amazing amount of time of 22 seconds, less than Windows XP in the same machine! Why I did that in Gentoo and not in SuSE? Simply because Gentoo's bootscripts are much easier to manage in that aspect. The trick is to hack everything so to start services in parallel as much as possible, launch them soon as possible, and optimize as much as possible! And I can tell you it wasn't a big and difficult task at all :-). Here You can see a list of tricks: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=197983 http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7594 http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw0... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=131142 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=191399 Last link is in spanish. And most of the things are gentoo-only, but at least you can see what's all about :-). Anyway, even using all the tricks, KDE still would likely take a lot to load if you don't use software suspend 2! But even with that, if you don't want to enter automatically with your user by default, that's not even a solution... Cheers, Edulix.