What do you like best about Ubuntu?
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at canonical.com
Wed Oct 20 23:13:03 UTC 2004
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 04:19:17PM -0400, Chris wrote:
> My single problem I have at this point isn't really Ubuntu specific
> because all distros are starting to have this problem:
>
> - The boot time is way too long. Especially since the introduction of
> things like Hotplug and similar. Windows has been getting faster while
> Linux has been getting slower and slower. Ubuntu seems to take forever
> to boot. There has got to be a way to just load the kernel and then
> start GDM right away. Let the network, hotplug, and all that other junk
> start in the background. Some things might need to be updated on the
> fly like Windows does after the GUI is already running however.
This is a proposed feature goal for the next release in April:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HoaryHedgehog
That doesn't help with hotplug, of course, since gdm shouldn't start until
after hotplug. However, I have some ideas for speeding up hotplug as well.
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2490
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- mdz
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