Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

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*** Reply to message from David Robertson <derobertson@xxxxxxxxxx> on
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:42:17 +0300   One more candle and a trip around the
Sun***

> 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? For instance , I don't have apache load or
run on my test box, because it doesn't need it for anything.. Someone
mentioned several things which start on boot up that he only uses
rarely. Perhaps one could stop those items from starting automagically
and start them only when you need them. That has to speed stuff up.

Besides, it is always better to not have a service running if you don't
use it then to risk having something creep up on you because you don't
use a service or program , so you don't pay attention to those security
warnings and don't bother to patch em up. Turn the stuff off. And Xfce
is a really nice  tiny desktop, and one of the favoured ones by the
folks who put linux on a cf card or sd card, or pen drive or floppy
....  Those little gems boot farely quickly , too. <G>

I think I am correct ; that you can start most services manually if you
need them rarely.

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j
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