Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Steve Clark]

On 03/12/2013 09:33 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 12.03.13 09:13, Steve Clark (sclark at netwolves.com) wrote:
>
>> How many times do you boot your system each day? 10? Okay thats a
>> whole 20 additional seconds.
> This is way up on my list of most non-sensical arguments about building
> OSes, right next to "Linux is about choice".
>
> This bullshit about "boot times don't matter" is just entirely bogus,
> and it doesn't get better by constant repitition.
>
> Fast boot times matter on desktops, they matter on embedded, they matter
> on mobile, they matter or servers, they matter everywhere.
>
> Fast boot times matter to dual-boot users, they matter to everybdoy who
> doesn't run his system 24/7, they matter in container setups, they
> matter in HA setups, they matter in the cloud, they matter for people
> who update their system, they matter to people with discontiniuous power
> supplies, they matter to provide users with a sane user experience.
>
> Fast boot times save you time and energy. They increase reliability, and
> applicability.
>
> Fast boot times improve the first impression our OS makes on people.
>
> And yes, I know that some BIOSes suck, and are slower than the OS to
> boot. But that's -- for once -- something that *does* not matter, and is
> no excuse for having everything else to be slow, too. The Windows 8
> certification *requires* fast POST from all machines, and so, it's only
> getting better, and we should do our bit about it.
>
> 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.
>
> Lennart
>
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!

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

-- 
Stephen Clark
*NetWolves*
Director of Technology
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