On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Steve Clark <sclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/15/2011 02:07 AM, drago01 wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 09/14/2011 06:23 PM, drago01 wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > <snip> > > Anyway, some more figures: On the same machine, bootup times when > booting from a (slow) external (IDE) USB2 HD: > - Fedora 15/i386: ca. 135 secs. > - Ubuntu 11.04/i386: ca. 70 secs. > > [Here bootup time: Wirst watch measured time from "grub prompt" to > "login screen"] > > It shows the effect of slow disks (60secs w/ internal HD vs. 2.15 > minutes w/ USB HD), but raises questions on why Ubuntu appears to be so > much faster in this configuration. > > Do they both start the same services? Unless you "tweaked" your fedora > installation where we start a bunch of stuff that pretty much nobody > would use in a typical desktop system that is to be expected. > > Is there a reason Fedora "starts a bunch of stuff that pretty much nobody > would use in a typical desktop system" ? Well one of the reasons is "every time someone tries to remove a service ends up in a flamefest with no outcome" ;) (ex. search the list archives for MTA, which is the most prominent one). -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
