Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I'm not saying that Fedora in paticular or linux in general HAS to > start faster. I personally dont even care. I'm just saying that if we > want to make it more accessable then it has to start faster. Or at > least appear to. Even if it is doing something in the backgorund that > does not interest the end user.
Let me put in a vote for things as they are, and a vote against fretting about user perceptions of startup time. When the system boots, it tells you what it is doing. The user can see what is happening and can understand what's running on the system. It's easy to be patient when the system announces what it is doing. When booting is done, the system is ready for operation, and not until then. No one likes a long boot, but on Linux, you know why it happens and you see progress.
On any number of Windows systems that I have had to use, the GUI appears "quickly". But it's false speed, because the system is not ready for operations when Windows will accept logins. You can open the Web browser, or start your email client, but doing so will only result in errors when you try to do real work. The machine will not be ready for work for 2-3 minutes after it allows you to login, because networking/anti-virus code/firewalls etc aren't yet running. This eliminates the benefit of an artificially fast "startup time".
Erik
