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...
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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