On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:01, Brent Thomson wrote: > 3. Shorten the boot time. If that involves shortening the list of > daemons that get started at boot time or making them start in parallel, > then do it. XP made great strides in this area.
This is an important point that needs to be taken seriously. Booting is horribly slow on Linux and there's no good reason for it. > 6. Introduce the idea of single-user RPMs (RPMs that don't require root > access to install and aren't installed system-wide). The people you'll > have to convert in order to steal desktop market share are not people > that should have root access, even to their own machine. They will still > want to install new software in an easy way. Let 'em do it in a safe, > individual way, too. This is an idea. The thing that's preventing it is that many packages simply aren't relocatable. Many developers hard code paths (or have them hard-coded during the configure stage of the build). It doesn't have to be like that. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
