Carsten Haitzler wrote: > 5. syslog - call me a heretic, Naw, I won't :-) syslog seems pretty useless under the best of circumstances. Perhaps something that gets the messages from things that insist on using the syslog interface and just dumps them on the console or rotates them in a 16kB buffer in /tmp would be sufficient.
> 12. xserver-nodm - this is where the rest of the bootup pain begins. Unfortunately, this is also the first thing we need in terms of giving the user the impression that something is happening. It's not so bad if things take a long time, but it's bad if users feel that there's no progress. By the way, before we get excessive with the boot time: how often do we actually expect the full system to boot ? When used as a phone, most people would probably try to keep it in suspend when power is low and then recharge, before running out of juice completely. Low-level system hackers (kernel et al.) should get bored with user space startup quickly enough that they'll customize their boot process anyway. So while long boot time is something that catches your eye during development, I'm not so sure it matters all that much in real life. - Werner
