On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 14:33, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Samstag, 20. September 2003 22:37 schrieb Eric Huff: > > > If you notice X starts up > > > even though the entire init process is not complete and in fact > > > you can actually start logging in before the init is finished. > > > > I have noticed that. I wish they would do more multitasking like > > that. > > > > What i didn't realize was that a lot of the startup programs > > themselves had so much waiting involved. It makes sense, though, > > now that everyone has talked about it... > > > > eric > > Yep it makes sense. If someone has tried it and it is valuable, How > about to stuff it together and publish needed mandrakespecific facts on > cooker wiki ? Maybe if it is worth it will be considered for 9.3/10.0 > ?Having a big part of the work done will help a lot in getting it in i > think. > > The thing with the earlier starting of x has nothing to do with voodoo > or special multitasking, its just cheating with starting the dn service > as early as possible, this makes the startup time perception a lot > shorter nothing else. > > Steffen
Well it's too late to have it the default in 9.2 but not too late to make it either a club contrib or an experimental project for 9.x. As I see it you would really need 2 versions. 1. for normal desktops 2. for laptops. Or some method of taking into account things that the current system doesn't (Like for a laptop without a built in nic starting network is a waste, but starting pcmcia is necessary, in it's place.) I also wonder if the make system could be devised to be intelligent. IE if you try to start pcmcia and there is no NIC don't bother starting network related services. That alone would make things faster. (proftpd for example really throws a hissy fit when it can find the net.) James
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