On 3 Sep 2007, at 22:41, Kero van Gelder wrote:
How is "Starting, please wait" sensible?
It better be starting, I just booted the device.
And I can see I have to wait, too.
Since the end user doesn't care what they are waiting for and might
not know what a UI is.
As a developer, I want to see the console, period.
If you're developing the bootup process or system then sure.
Here's my bugbear:
Right now I am ten times more worried about non-existing power
mgmt preventing me from becoming an end-user (2 or 3 hours on battery
is not long enough on a regular working day, really).
I've not had problems recently since I started taking the battery out
and charging it all the time.
No idea what factors of speed your mythTV hardware has on the Neo.
My laptop beats my PC at work handsomely, because there is no
(sloooow)
scsi bus detection scheme, ran by both BIOS and kernel.
Both have a 533 MHz bus to memory, tho.
What does help, is parallellizing various independent startup scripts,
as someone did (not for Neo) be replacing init scripts with make.
Well it's gone from taking a minute or two to booting in about 30
seconds. It's the only Ubuntu system I use, my main box is a Mac and
I run Kubuntu under a virtual PC.
