On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Ray Strode wrote: > Hi, > > Just noticed that the new gdm in rawhide allows early logon before the > > entire system is up. But as I read about it in the init script does not > > actually allow users to logon until the entire system is up. My question > > is what is the purpose of this if you can't logon when the screen > > appears? > There are a number of advantages to starting gdm early. > > 1) no rhgb means we don't have to start two X servers during the boot > up process. This means faster bootup, less badness on bad hardware, > etc... > > 2) The user can potentially login sooner if we only limit login until > the services that the user absolutely needs are started. > > 3) The system feels like it boots faster if the user sees a login screen > early. > > 4) The user can type their username and password as soon as a login > screen appears, then walk away--get coffee whatever--and come back with > it all logged in. > > Note, even if we say "the services that the user absolutely needs" in 2) > above is "all services that we're going to start", it still has the > other mentioned advantages. > > We still need to make some changes in lower-levels of the distro before > dm early-login mode will work. You can track progress here if you're > interested: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151952 FWIW, Sun made a similar change for Solaris 10. It may be worth looking at what was done there just for comparison. (though preferably without drinking the XML kool-aid! :-) later, chris
