On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:17:25PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > from user space to presenting a login prompt that's way too long. My > distro (Debian) runs all the init scripts one at a time, and GDM is the > last thing that gets run. There is just no reason for this. We should > start X and initialize the display and get the login prompt up there > ASAP, and let the system acquire the DHCP lease and start sendmail and > apache and get the date from the NTP server *in the background while I > am logging in*. It's not rocket science.
This is debatable. Windows does something like this. It really annoys me that I will get a windows desktop very quickly after logging in but that I can't do anything with it until some mystrey initialization takes place. I would hate to be able to log into my linux machine but not be able to check email for the first 15 seconds. Jim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
