a fedora feature criticized

[gopal das]

Hi,
After seeing all the features of Fedora11 Alpha, everything appeared really
impressive and nice except the one feature which may not bring a good
future.
*Feature "*20 second startup": Perhaps nobody will unhappy if a system
starts up within 1 minuet when various services and scripts has been started
correctly, attached new hardware detection is ok, other crucial job such as
successfully scanning the whole file systems with huge data on it,
successfully starts virtualization platform etc. But Surely everybody will
annoyed when a system starts up within 20 second where without one of the
said crucial jobs. In this regard myself and some of my close friends have
experienced a start up problem (within 7 days I will confirm this is a bug
or not) during testing the Fedora 10 final on both i386 and 64 platform. So
I am eagerly want to ask that whether a server operating system really needs
to up within 20 second?

Cheers
Gopal Das
Fedora India Ambassador

[Debarshi Ray]

Have you ever seen FreeBSD boot? :-)

Cheers,
Debarshi

[Ambassadors] a fedora feature criticized

[Rahul Sundaram]

gopal das wrote:
>  Hi,
>  After seeing all the features of Fedora11 Alpha, everything appeared 
>  really impressive and nice except the one feature which may not bring a 
>  good future.
>  */Feature/ "*20 second startup": Perhaps nobody will unhappy if a system 
>  starts up within 1 minuet when various services and scripts has been 
>  started correctly, attached new hardware detection is ok, other crucial 
>  job such as successfully scanning the whole file systems with huge data 
>  on it, successfully starts virtualization platform etc. But Surely 
>  everybody will annoyed when a system starts up within 20 second where 
>  without one of the said crucial jobs. In this regard myself and some of 
>  my close friends have experienced a start up problem (within 7 days I 
>  will confirm this is a bug or not) during testing the Fedora 10 final on 
>  both i386 and 64 platform. So I am eagerly want to ask that whether a 
>  server operating system really needs to up within 20 second? 
A system should start as fast as possible and yes, that includes a 
server. If you have been administrating server systems, you don't really 
want to waste time waiting for it to boot instead of doing something 
useful. Besides, Fedora is used more on the desktops and laptops 
compared to servers.

Rahul

[Ambassadors] a fedora feature criticized

[Vivek Shah]

> So I am eagerly want to ask that whether a server operating system
> really needs to up within 20 second? 
In fact a server system is configured manually
to specifically run
services or not to. As a server administrator you would want it to
boot as fast as possible since the specific services that you want are
either turned off or turned on by you. You would not really want to
wait for foo bar services running on a server and waiting for it just
to turn it off. So if you say that for a server a fast boot up time is
not required I think you are missing the mark.

Regards,
Vivek

[Ambassadors] a fedora feature criticized

[susmit shannigrahi]

>  In fact a server system is configured manually to specifically run
>  services or not to. As a server administrator you would want it to
>  boot as fast as possible since the specific services that you want are
>  either turned off or turned on by you. You would not really want to
>  wait for foo bar services running on a server and waiting for it just
>  to turn it off. So if you say that for a server a fast boot up time is
>  not required I think you are missing the mark. 
On the other hand, servers are so infrequently rebooted that a 20 sec
boot or a 60 sec boot does not make much difference.

Still it will be nice to have, and for desktop, a faster boot up is a must.

-- 
Regards,
Susmit.

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