Boot times,services and packages

[shirish]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 16:55, shirish <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>       There are three services which on my system which just take
> cycles other than doing anything. (or so I believe)
>
> a. nvidia-kernel (no nvidia card so useless)
> b. bluetooth (no support for bluetooth in the motherboard, so useless again)
> c. laptop-mode ( this is a desktop, although do have a UPS)
>
> so why is it in the boot-sequence taking all those precious cycles?
>
> Can't we make our boot-up infrastructure more intelligent so it stops
> those services for which hardware is not there or not present.
>
> Another issue is now  I have three tools like bum (boot-up manager) or
> sys-rc-conf or System > Administration > Services (although the last
> one is just for stopping or starting services
>
> Now which one is recommended for doing stuff although like bum.
>
> If there has been some discussion on this which I'm unaware please
> point out the same to me.
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>          Regards,
>          Shirish Agarwal
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