On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Stewart Adam wrote:
IIRC development stopped on gdm-early-login because it was trouble
for
users with system files that were NFS-mounted (/var and /usr I think),
but that was one really easy way to make things seem faster without
actually the decreasing boot time.
Depends on how you define boot time. If you say boot is done when the
system is interactive, you cut several seconds.
"Other OS:es" obviously use this approach, the perceptual being what
matters.
Surely, this must be fixable, it'd be such a boost..
Linus