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

Helge Hafting
2005-02-17T19:57:57Z

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