On 09/13/2011 03:11 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
The worst case Windows example of absolutely needlessly doing this type of thing, is preloaders for office and adobe. How rediculous to assume your product is so good that someone will you use it on every boot.
They may be assuming that, true, but I believe it is also that they do not want to make to remove the bloat from their software that causes it to take forever to load upon invocation. Tossing that load time over the fence to the boot process makes the average user unable to assign blame for sluggishness to those vendors' particular packages (or the user just accepts that their PC boots slowly).
While on that topic, I'll make another plug for OpenBSD: it boots and runs indistinguishably as fast from a Patriot XT Rage "quad-channel" USB stick on a USB 2.0-equipped PC as it does from an average spinning hard disk.
Corey
