Complete graphical boot for Fedora

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:22 -0400, Kevin A. Wright wrote:
> In all seriousness, what obstacles are there to the implementation of this?
> Perhaps I understand why the initial stuff like uncompressing the kernel,
> starting udev, etc is in text, but what trouble would it be to extend the
> graphical boot to a graphical shutdown?  I'd like to help in any way I can.

Shouldn't shutdown just take a few seconds at most?

I know Fedora sometimes takes ages with the /sbin/service <daemon> stop
routine, but I'm sure some daemons don't *require* this.

Is there any way we can quicken this up by not calling the stop script?

Richard.