On Sunday 30 April 2006 20:34, kai wrote:
On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:46 am, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 30 April 2006 02:26, James Knott wrote:
kai wrote:
On Saturday 29 April 2006 10:13 am, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 16:39 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 29 April 2006 16:35, Alexey Eremenko wrote: >> Linux is mostly designed to be running continuosly for days and >> months without booting. > > SUSE Linux is first & foremost an open-source operating system. > Therefore it must change to meet the new Home User's requirements.
There is a huge amount of research going on in this area, it's not something you can just do with one package, if it were that simple it would have been done long ago. But people are working on it. 10.0 was a great improvement to previous versions
Why not just have KDM start sooner?
Not sure if that is the only thing. People (like me) tend to compare against WinXP in terms of booting. There are a few tricks the MS folks do to get XP to boot "faster" than it otherwise might.
One thing they do, is give the appearance of booting faster, by displaying the desktop early. However, you can't do much, until well after the desktop appears.
Indeed. I like to have a /usable/ desktop when it appears.
IMHO the best thing one can do for now (apart from tweaking /etc/sysconfig/boot) to cut off some time from the boot process is to fire up 'yast runlevel' and disable those services you don't need. Carefull though, do not disable e.g. kbd. ;)
Yeah, I put up with a bit longer time because I run MySQL, Apache, Postfix, Tomcat and a few other things on my laptop. This is - after all -a development "server." :)
That's only a subset of my 'all-purpose'-PC. ;) BTW, I forgot to mention filesystems: only the filesystems that are really needed should be mounted by default in fstab. I have several filesystems mounted by default, which takes time. I don't care too much, since I discovered like Carl that Suspend to Disk works. Cheers, Leen