On Friday 15 April 2005 08:23, Colin Carter wrote:
Now I ask you, why does a modern O.S. take so long to start up?
All the services and features that need to be set up - all the stuff people expect from a modern OS. If you want something that boots fast, there is always old MS-DOS. You might miss a couple of features you have come to like, though. ;-)
I know: it is preparing the 42,000 fonts that I will never use!
Did you really check what consumes all the time at boot?
Dozens of services are initialized and started.
Dozens of different kinds of hardware are probed - which might or might not be
available, thus requiring some (frequently heuristic) hardware probing - and
waiting for answers for some time. Some hardware subsystems have looong
possible timeouts - SCSI (an early 80s era technology) is a notorious
example, USB (connectivity for all kinds of possibly very dumb and possibly
very slow devices) is another.
If you know for sure you don't need some of that stuff, you can easily remove
it from the boot process - simply use the YaST2 runlevel editor. But then
please don't complain that that cheapo printer you bought for $69.- or that
geeky USB stick doesn't work, or that you can't connect to a network printer.
All that stuff requires some initialization and/or some services to run, and
all that takes some time at boot time.
HTH
CU
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Stefan Hundhammer