On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 17:05 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > In my experience, the faster boot of Windows is just a bit of slight > of hand. That's fine -- users (for whatever reasons that are not worth debating), like that behavior. I think we'd do better if we could start X faster, while other things are going on in the background. (For fun, look at the first item on this page that I have just stumbled across: http://kegel.com/linux/comfort/ ). Going back to X, for a normal Linux install (no networked /home), what do we _really_ need to start X? We need: * The files. These we typically have on the HD that the kernel booted from, so no additional time is needed. * Video card. This is mostly there. Everything else (including mouse and keyboard) can come later. We should be able to bring X up well within 5 seconds. And if we do bring it up fast enough, we can also drop the rhgb and speed it up even more. To do this right we need a proper API for services, one that can be called from code to start/stop/wait_for/... a service. -- Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Lattica, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
