Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

>It isn't about "average" times - it is about the psychological effect.
>Users hate waiting for computers.
>

and i hate waiting for networking, fetchmail|mailscanner|sendmail, 
mysql, httpd, ... and other services while i am logged in.

>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...)
>  
>

why not runlevel 4 and/or 7  "joe-average-user--psychological-fastboot"
afair runlevel 4,7-9 are not defined

eg.
runlevel 4 (minimal services, X11, logon) and switch to runlevel 7 
(additional services)
runlevel 5 (all services, X11, logon)
runlevel 7 (fastboot = minimal services, X11, logon, additional services)


http://fedoraproject.org/people/
--> pete zaitcev  telinit 4 "running on battery"
http://www.livejournal.com/users/zaitcev/21605.html

$ grep " - " /etc/inittab
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have 
networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)


$ LANG=C man init
<snip>
Runlevels 0, 1, and 6 are reserved. Runlevel 0 is  used  to  halt  the
       system,  runlevel  6  is  used to reboot the system, and runlevel 
1 is
       used to get the system down into single user mode. Runlevel S  
is  not
       really  meant  to  be used directly, but more for the scripts 
that are
       executed when entering runlevel 1. For more information on  
this,  see
       the manpages for shutdown(8) and inittab(5).

       Runlevels  7-9  are  also valid, though not really documented. 
This is
       because "traditional" Unix variants don't use them.   In  case  
you're
       curious,  runlevels S and s are in fact the same.  Internally 
they are
       aliases for the same runlevel.
</snip>

-- 
shrek-m