Feature changed by: Luc de Louw (delouw) Feature #306774, revision 3 Title: Speed up openSUSE! openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Nikola Milosavljevic (nikola191994) Description: This should be really nice. It needs to have speed. Fast boot time like in Ubuntu or Fedora would REALLY be nice. Also, speed up most of the applications including YaST and Update manager. On Distrowatch.com, they put up that openSUSE is slow and bloated sometimes(resource heavy YaST or other openSUSE-Specific apps.) Discussion: #1: Rémy Marquis (spyhawk) (2009-07-12 04:12:28) Duplicate of feature 306367 :  https://features.opensuse.org/306367 (https://features.opensuse.org/306367) + #2: Luc de Louw (delouw) (2009-07-12 14:28:16) + For the replacement of SysV-Init it is too early, the Linux and Unix + industry should define a standard before. At the moment the relativly + slow SysV init is only of the common things in most Unix and Linux + distributions (excluding Ubuntu and Solaris 10). + Fast boot time is not realy a measure to decide how good or bad a + distribution is. On my desktop, the POST takes longer than the rest of + boot process (to the console, runlevel 3). Maybe BIOS manufacturers + should be questioned about this. + YaST: It is just a front end for different tools. If you dont like + YaST's performance use zypper, rpm and vi as more performant and + lightwight options. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306774

Feature changed by: Alvise Z (alvise_cav) Feature #306774, revision 5 Title: Speed up openSUSE! openSUSE-11.2: Duplicate of #306367 + Master status: Done Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Duplicate of #306367 Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Nikola Milosavljevic (nikola191994) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: This should be really nice. It needs to have speed. Fast boot time like in Ubuntu or Fedora would REALLY be nice. Also, speed up most of the applications including YaST and Update manager. On Distrowatch.com, they put up that openSUSE is slow and bloated sometimes(resource heavy YaST or other openSUSE-Specific apps.) Relations: - feature/duplicate: 306367 Discussion: #1: Rémy Marquis (spyhawk) (2009-07-12 04:12:28) Duplicate of feature 306367 :  https://features.opensuse.org/306367 (https://features.opensuse.org/306367) #2: Luc de Louw (delouw) (2009-07-12 14:28:16) For the replacement of SysV-Init it is too early, the Linux and Unix industry should define a standard before. At the moment the relativly slow SysV init is only of the common things in most Unix and Linux distributions (excluding Ubuntu and Solaris 10). Fast boot time is not realy a measure to decide how good or bad a distribution is. On my desktop, the POST takes longer than the rest of boot process (to the console, runlevel 3). Maybe BIOS manufacturers should be questioned about this. YaST: It is just a front end for different tools. If you dont like YaST's performance use zypper, rpm and vi as more performant and lightwight options. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306774