The Future of Fedora.

[Gerard Milmeister]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 11:44, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:

> Also bear in mind, that the number of services (server components etc)
> that a V.everything install FC1 runs at startup, is maybe double that of
> XP Pro. I tuned mine for my requirements, which is something you're always
> encouraged to do with Linux. With Windows, you wouldn't even know about
> disabling unnecessary services unless you're the type that reads articles
> on the hacking sites. So if anything, Linux *should* boot slower than XP.
> The fact that it doesn't is testimony to it's efficient optimised code.

In fact starting the services is relatively fast.
However the various kernel initialization phases can be quite slow,
for example the scsi subsystem.
Also the time from seeing the login prompt and having a graphical
desktop is long.
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