Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

[Michael A. Peters]

On 04/03/2005 11:25:19 AM, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

> It isn't about "average" times - it is about the psychological  
> effect.
> Users hate waiting for computers. But they *do* accept *some* waiting
> at
> boot - up to a certain amount. So just showing them a desktop - even
> if
> there wasn't much that could be done yet.

There is nothing I hate more about Windows than not being able to start  
stuff because the desktop is there before the OS has finished booting.

With Linux - I can see it hasn't finished booting and refill my coffee  
or something - and when the login prompt is there, I can login and  
stuff works.

> 
> Personally i think something should be done about the
> prelink/updatedb-makes-computer-slow thing - it always happens when  
> it
> is least convenient...


Yeah - booted the other day to burn a DVD iso for someone - updatedb  
started just at the very end of the burn - making a coaster of a fc3  
dvd.

I killed anacron after that.

I believe fcron - as a single app replacement for cron and anacron -  
allows you to specify what scheduled tasks should be rerun if scheduled  
when the machine was down. That would be nice. I suppose it could be  
done by modifying the updatedb cron script to just exit if its after 5  
AM but before 3 AM or something ...

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Michael A. Peters
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