Thank you for correcting that error. I agree, Linux does tend to have a lot more going on at startup. Luckily you can turn off all of those services, like SMB. I believe Windows leaves this on by default? Ben On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:39 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Ben Sheron wrote: > > Fedora has a lot of stuff added to the kernel; > > Erm: that's ambiguous. > > Fedora contains a lot of programs that it runs on top of the kernel. But > the Fedora kernel is not heavily patched: see > http://people.redhat.com/davej/patchlist-fc3.txt for a full list of what > was in a fairly recent update, and note that most of the patches are > very small "fix" patches. > > But it's the programs that run at startup that slow down Linux booting. > And a lot of those just aren't found in a typical Windows desktop: there > won't be a mail server or proxy server. There probably won't be a > network time daemon, web server, or ftp server. There will be a much > less versatile firewall. There'll be much less support for network > services beyond what Samba provides. > > Also, Fedora's automatic hardware detection and configuration is better > than Windows (and that's saying something: it's one of the areas that > Microsoft has really concentrated on). The price is a slightly slower > boot as Fedora redetects all the hardware. > > James. > > -- > E-mail address: james | It wasn't until 1941 that Bournemouth came to the > @westexe.demon.co.uk | world's attention, when the course of World War II was > | changed for good after the Japanese made the mistake > | of bombing Poole Harbour. -- ISIHAC, BBC R4 >
