Javier Palacios Bermejo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > This may be heresy, but I am irritated by the amount of time
> > linux spends shutting down. I am running SuSE 6.1, and I generally boot
>
> I know that this may not be a solution. But I think the problem is SuSE.
> It's a red-hat like installation, isn't it? And the last week I've been
> looking for boot/shutdown process at a redhat machine. It takes a long.
> Actually, much longer that windows, with it's colorful things and such.
> And that was surprising to me. I use slackware, both in laptop and desk
> boxes, and it's much faster in all these tasks.
>
> Revise the present daemons as suggested could help, but if you really want
> a faster boot/shut, I'll recomend you try slackware. You will not get
> colorful things, and that makes everything faster.
What "colorful" things do you see in a RedHat shutdown? All I ever
see, even when shutting down from X is line after line telling what
is happening in plain text on a console. X goes down almost
immediately.
Not saying it is particularly fast but I don't see "colorful things".
