Alternative Init System

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 23:03 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > > Have you tried Dapper?  It boots WAY faster than Breezy, I have not
> > > timed it but it feels almost as fast as XP.
> >
> > I've seen a marginal improvement only - time till bootchart shows
> > gdmgreeter stops using CPU: 45-50s (breezy) -> 35-40s (dapper).
> 
> just tried on my laptop, using the time between the grub menu to the
> gdm login (for Ubuntu) and to the Windows login prompt (for XP pro):
> 
> Dapper:  34 seconds
> WinXP:  21 seconds

I wouldn't call that marginal - we closed the gap by ~40% in one release
cycle.

I think a few seconds can be shaved off that by manually moving gdm
earlier in the boot process (works OK here)

Lee