Re: problem bootin inetboot

2008-09-10 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Kuniyasu e a todos. On Wednesday 20 August 2008 12:18:46 Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote: Hello, From: (``-_-´´) -- Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem bootin inetboot On Thursday 07 August 2008 04:46:14 Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote: I tried the ISO file with InetBoot and found

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 09.09.2008 um 20:31 schrieb Jonathan Carter (highvoltage): Perhaps making the boot-process longer, by loading any non-essential software as late as possible (even long after the user has logged on), but getting the user interface ready as early as possible, should be the target,

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2008-09-10 kello 09:22 +0200, Markus Hitter kirjoitti: This is what Windows XP does already, isn't it? You boot, get automatic login, see the desktop, but essentially have to wait longer to do something useful. Or, indeed, to do anything. I've experienced this with my girlfriend's

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/9/9 Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2. Remove the flashes and brown screens when starting Gnome Personally, my biggest annoyance as a user is the brown screen that flashes between GDM and when Gnome starts. It would be much nicer if gdm displayed the greeter for half a

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote on 09/09/08 19:31: ... 1. Attempt to get an X server up much sooner ... See also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OneSecondX. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Jonathan e a todos. On Tuesday 09 September 2008 19:31:33 Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: It seems that with the current process, it's close to as fast as it can be at the moment. Readahead avoids unnecessary disk seeks. Upstart gets the services started in an optimal (well, let's

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2008-09-09 at 20:31 +0200, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: Hi Some systems have been really successful at making it *appear* as if the system starts up faster. In my opinion, where the system can't be made to boot faster, it should be made to appear so. there are a lot of

Re: Release Team 20080808 meeting minutes

2008-09-10 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Steve e a todos. On Tuesday 09 September 2008 20:24:24 Steve Langasek wrote: Hi folks, Please find below the meeting minutes from the August 8 release meeting, also available in the wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2008-08-08. Was this 08/08/2008 or 08/09/2008 --

Apport bug of feature?

2008-09-10 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
During development, we turn apport back on, and it starts to catch ALL bugs. But there are software that aint on Ubuntu reps (most on PPAs) and apport tries to report the bug/crash and fails. It is happening to me, several times with gwibber. Should this be considered a bug (either by not

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Timo Jyrinki pisze: No, really, I think there is room for at least 5x improvement in disk seeks. The disk usage is currently terrible, and it is what is is because of the wish not to do too much optimization work so that there is no risk of breaking any complex setup of programs. The

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:01:49AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote on 09/09/08 19:31: ... 1. Attempt to get an X server up much sooner ... See also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OneSecondX.

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 13:40 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: it would be cool to see some community activity here (i.e. a team forming around redoing the scripts in upstart events, doing tests and measurements and publishing bootcharts ...) if the distro team alone does it it will take a lot

Re: Release Team 20080808 meeting minutes

2008-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
Oi Fernando, On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:33:13PM +0100, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: Olá Steve e a todos. On Tuesday 09 September 2008 20:24:24 Steve Langasek wrote: Please find below the meeting minutes from the August 8 release meeting, also available in the wiki at

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
On 09/09/2008, at 20.31, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: Some systems have been really successful at making it *appear* as if the system starts up faster. In my opinion, where the system can't be made to boot faster, it should be made to appear so. Is booting really relevant these

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Milos Mandaric
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 01:19 +0200, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: On 09/09/2008, at 20.31, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: Some systems have been really successful at making it *appear* as if the system starts up faster. In my opinion, where the system can't be made to boot faster, it