Improving the Fedora boot experience

Olav Vitters olav at vitters.nl
Tue Mar 12 14:36:20 UTC 2013


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:56:57AM -0400, Steve Clark wrote:
> On 03/12/2013 09:33 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >On Tue, 12.03.13 09:13, Steve Clark (sclark at netwolves.com) wrote:
> >You know: *you* might not need fast boot. *Your* systems you might not
> >reboot only every other week. *Your* server system might have a very
> >slow BIOS POST. But we don't do this OS for *you* alone. Fedora has a
> >certain claim of universality. And that's why fast boot matters to
> >Fedora.
[..]
> How in the hell does 2 more seconds when booting a Desktop make any difference in an 8 to 10 hour
> day that the computer is going to be up. Go get a cup a coffee!

As you're making a suggestion towards Lennart, can I also make the
suggestion that you read his email? This as he already addressed your
"it does not matter for me".

> You keep touting window 8 - maybe you should just use it an leave Linux alone!

Why not reconfigure Grub on your own to have a 30 second delay?
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Regards,
Olav


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