Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

jlnance
2005-02-17T18:37:32Z

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:17:25PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:

> from user space to presenting a login prompt that's way too long. My
> distro (Debian) runs all the init scripts one at a time, and GDM is the
> last thing that gets run. There is just no reason for this. We should
> start X and initialize the display and get the login prompt up there
> ASAP, and let the system acquire the DHCP lease and start sendmail and
> apache and get the date from the NTP server *in the background while I
> am logging in*. It's not rocket science.

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.

Jim