Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

søn, 03.04.2005 kl. 17.00 skrev Axel Thimm:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:27:54PM +0200, Ziga Mahkovec wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 02:21 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 03:15:03PM -0800, luya at jpopmail.com wrote:
> > > > this is a question I receive froom some Fedora Core 3 users. After
> > > > they have tried Ubuntu, they complained about the 'slow speed' of
> > > > Fedora. Their major complain are the number of seriveces enabled by
> > > > default event though they choose to do desktop installation. Another
> > > > complain I heard are the memory on which they use Ubuntu (once
> > > > again) to be efficient. How should I respend on that kind of
> > > > question?
> > > 
> > > Ask them why they need to reboot Ubuntu that often ... ;)
> > 
> > There are several reasons why desktop systems need rebooting, and
> > they're not specific to Ubuntu:
> > 
> > - running a laptop (and not being able to get software suspend to work)
> > - powering down the system over night (think ecology)
> > - sharing a room with the noisy machine
> 
> All tasks you perform 1-5 times a day at max. So cutting 10 seconds
> boot time saves you a minute per day?
> 

It isn't about "average" times - it is about the psychological effect.
Users hate waiting for computers. But they *do* accept *some* waiting at
boot - up to a certain amount. So just showing them a desktop - even if
there wasn't much that could be done yet. Or even better - show them the
desktop, and continue to start other services in the background (think
cups is loaded in the background at the same time as gnome etc. - or
even better - things like apache etc that people have running should be
loaded *after* GDM. They won't use it until they have opened firefox
anyway...)

Personally i think something should be done about the
prelink/updatedb-makes-computer-slow thing - it always happens when it
is least convenient...

Kyrre