From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Helge Hafting Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:58:23 +0000 Subject: Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release) Message-Id: <20050217200009.GA19956@hh.idb.hist.no> List-Id: References: <20050211011609.GA27176@suse.de> <1108354011.25912.43.camel@krustophenia.net> <4d8e3fd305021400323fa01fff@mail.gmail.com> <42106685.40307@arcor.de> <1108422240.28902.11.camel@krustophenia.net> <524qge20e2.fsf@topspin.com> <1108424720.32293.8.camel@krustophenia.net> <42113F6B.1080602@am.sony.com> <1108430245.32293.16.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050217183709.GA11929@ncsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050217183709.GA11929@ncsu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu Cc: Lee Revell , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:37:09PM -0500, jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:17:25PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > This is debatable. Windows does something like this. It really annoys > me that I will get a windows desktop very quickly after logging in > but that I can't do anything with it until some mystrey initialization > takes place. I would hate to be able to log into my linux machine but > not be able to check email for the first 15 seconds. Well, this will depend on your email server (pop? imap? other?) being up. Is it local on your machine, or external? Either way, being able to launch an email client (or some "new mail" notification app) shouldn't be a problem. It will simply not notice new mail until the mail service comes up - but it won't fail. It'll be as if the mail arrived a little later. Helge Hafting ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel