Gutsy speed

[Derek Broughton]

andy baxter wrote:

>> FYI, people are working on making the linux boot process faster - I
>> think one of the projects is called initng(?) The idea is rather than
>> starting the processes and services in series at the moment, to have an
>> init system that knows which services depend on others so that they can
>> be started partially in parallel. This would make booting much faster,
>> but hasn't been brought into ubuntu yet.

Yes, and no.  Ubuntu started the upstart project instead, which should
accomplish the same thing, and has a lot more development effort going into
it than initng - and you already have upstart on your system (but probably
running in sysvinit mode).
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derek