On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 20:25 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > But they *do* accept *some* waiting at > boot - up to a certain amount. So just showing them a desktop - even if > there wasn't much that could be done yet. Or even better - show them the > desktop, and continue to start other services in the background (think > cups is loaded in the background at the same time as gnome etc. Then see complains pouring in with "Login takes forever..." It already takes ~8 seconds on my 1.7ghz celeron with 750mb ram (I have epiphany and gedit saved in session startup) -- Marius Andreiana Epon -- future-proof business applications http://www.epon.ro