Re: Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

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On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 17:00 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:27:54PM +0200, Ziga Mahkovec wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 02:21 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 03:15:03PM -0800, luya@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > this is a question I receive froom some Fedora Core 3 users. After
> > > > they have tried Ubuntu, they complained about the 'slow speed' of
> > > > Fedora. Their major complain are the number of seriveces enabled by
> > > > default event though they choose to do desktop installation. Another
> > > > complain I heard are the memory on which they use Ubuntu (once
> > > > again) to be efficient. How should I respend on that kind of
> > > > question?
> > > 
> > > Ask them why they need to reboot Ubuntu that often ... ;)
> > 
> > There are several reasons why desktop systems need rebooting, and
> > they're not specific to Ubuntu:
> > 
> > - running a laptop (and not being able to get software suspend to work)
> > - powering down the system over night (think ecology)
> > - sharing a room with the noisy machine
> 
> All tasks you perform 1-5 times a day at max. So cutting 10 seconds
> boot time saves you a minute per day?
> 
> Unless you need instanton technology (think Fedora Media Center) there
> is no urgent need to speed up boot process, or not?
> 
> I don't disagree with lowering boot time, but it isn't high priority.
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It depends how long what you need to do takes.

I'm sure you've been caught in the situation where you "just need to
check something" before going out somewhere. The time it will take to
check the "thing" is maybe fifteen seconds. The time to boot the machine
is much longer than that.

Is there software suspend for desktops?


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