Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 15:17:28 UTC 2008


Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:06:21AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> I don't quite understand the obsession with making boot time faster 
>> anyway.  Machines should only boot when they have a new kernel to 
>> install.  If they aren't needed all the time they should sleep or 
>> hibernate, waking up with everything still running.
> 
> And when we've reached the flying-car future where suspend/resume is 
> actually reliable on Linux, I'll agree. But we're not even slightly 
> there, and as a result the boot process remains an interesting area of 
> optimisation.

Well, if you don't drive away all the potential users with incompatible 
and arbitrary changes by the time you get around to working on the 
improvements that actually matter...

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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