From: Dhruba B. <dh...@co...> - 2004-02-26 18:32:17
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<quote who=3D"Carsten Haitzler"> > if i had the time... i'd do a distro. just for myself of all people! :) > i'd love > to actually do a distro that's stripped down - no "apache" no "mysql" n= o > "openldap" in fact no gimp, etc. basically just what u need to install, > log in, > and run a terminal, download some files, maybe browse a website or 3, r= ead > e-mail. all things like "gimp" would be add-on packages (of course an e= asy > to > use package fetcher would be included), but all of this is a side-line. > i'd like > to make it ULTRA FAST to boot. make it boot in about 3-5 seconds to you= r > login > manager. this is perfectly possible. in fact it can be done in under > seconds if > you REALLY want (it's been done) :) Many including me use Gentoo which fulfil above requirements for precisel= y those reasons. The bare time to boot has been 10-15 seconds before I added cups, apache and other stuff to run levels. And that's with framebuffer and bootsplash. See here for example. http://dhruba.codewordt.co.uk/images/2.6-bs.png --=20 Dhruba Bandopadhyay // dhruba [AT] codewordt.co.uk ICQ: 31628525 // MSN: bdhruba [AT] msn.com Use Gentoo Linux! // http://www.gentoo.org/ |