From: Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...> - 2004-02-27 00:18:32
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:19:56 -0000 (GMT) "Dhruba Bandopadhyay" <dh...@co...> babbled: > > <quote who="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" no > > "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, read > > e-mail. all things like "gimp" would be add-on packages (of course an easy > > 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 your > > 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 precisely > 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. framebuffer and splashscreens don't kill the boot time - its init and the tonne of over-engineered SCRIPTS that do (well ok a lot of excess kernel probing too...) i'd want to replace init with a dependency system that doesn't use inefficient scripts to run your system. > http://dhruba.codewordt.co.uk/images/2.6-bs.png > > -- > Dhruba Bandopadhyay // dhruba [AT] codewordt.co.uk > ICQ: 31628525 // MSN: bdhruba [AT] msn.com > Use Gentoo Linux! // http://www.gentoo.org/ -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ra...@ra... 熊耳 - 車君 (数田) ra...@de... Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) |