Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 10:16 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 13.03.2013 02:54, schrieb Simo Sorce:
> > On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 23:23 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >>
> >> Am 12.03.2013 23:13, schrieb Simo Sorce:
> >>> On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 22:37 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Am 12.03.2013 22:34, schrieb Simo Sorce:
> >>>>> I reboot VMs a lot for development, 2 seconds do make a difference
> >>>>
> >>>> Bruhahaha
> >>>>
> >>>> 100 reboots = 200 seconds = 3.3 Minutes more for 100 reboots
> >>>> well, i boot probably more VMs you have ever seen BUT if two
> >>>> seconds are really counting you are doing something terrible
> >>>> wrong and should take a deep breat and a coffee
> >>>
> >>> Wehn  you spin 100 Vms at the same time and do not care when they come
> >>> up you are not in teh same situationa s someone doing development and
> >>> waiting doing nothing on the particular VM he is testing
> >>
> >> who speaks of spin up 100 VMs at the same time?
> >>
> >> i am doing also development and reboot test-VMs often
> >> but if you believe 2 seconds boot-time make and difference
> >> you are doing all wrong - some people hammering permanently
> >> on their machines and get hurted by two seconds, others are
> >> thinking before the are doing technical stuff, you can guess
> >> which are having more success at the end of the day
> > 
> > Yeah I must be a useless idiot
> 
> your words
> 
> SO DISABLE THE GRUB-DELAY ON YOU FUCKING MACHINE
> BUT LEAVE THE DEFAULTS IN PEACE - IS THIS SO
> DIFFICULT AND IF IT IS HOW DIFFICULT WOULD IT
> BE FOR THE BEGINNER TO GET THE OTHER TURN?

Dear Reindl,
it is evident even to a beginner that it is clearly more difficult for a
beginner to change a system setting than for an experienced admin. You
know that, so you already know the answer to your question.

Shouting and swearing will not improve your message in any way.

Your faithful idiot,
Simo.


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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York