Fedora 9 Feature suggestion - The start menu and caching

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Thu Nov 8 13:46:20 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 12:01 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> > 
> > Relevant link is:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/15/46
> 
> I helped Jens with testing fcache. I used Debian at the time, but it
> should work on any distro. The improvement in boot-up speed was nice.
> 
> The problem is fcache is not upstream and it won't be. Jens saw fcache
> only as a proof-of-concept hack. He abandoned its development. He had
> an idea for a better and easier to use solution. It was supposed to be
> more automatic with no special "priming" mode. I don't think he ever
> got to implement it though.

So very sad. Yet again "perfect" is the enemy of "good"....




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