søn, 03.04.2005 kl. 17.00 skrev Axel Thimm:
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:27:54PM +0200, Ziga Mahkovec wrote:
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 02:21 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 03:15:03PM -0800, luya@jpopmail.com wrote:
this is a question I receive froom some Fedora Core 3 users. After they have tried Ubuntu, they complained about the 'slow speed' of Fedora. Their major complain are the number of seriveces enabled by default event though they choose to do desktop installation. Another complain I heard are the memory on which they use Ubuntu (once again) to be efficient. How should I respend on that kind of question?
Ask them why they need to reboot Ubuntu that often ... ;)
There are several reasons why desktop systems need rebooting, and they're not specific to Ubuntu:
- running a laptop (and not being able to get software suspend to work)
- powering down the system over night (think ecology)
- sharing a room with the noisy machine
All tasks you perform 1-5 times a day at max. So cutting 10 seconds boot time saves you a minute per day?
It isn't about "average" times - it is about the psychological effect. Users hate waiting for computers. But they *do* accept *some* waiting at boot - up to a certain amount. So just showing them a desktop - even if there wasn't much that could be done yet. Or even better - show them the desktop, and continue to start other services in the background (think cups is loaded in the background at the same time as gnome etc. - or even better - things like apache etc that people have running should be loaded *after* GDM. They won't use it until they have opened firefox anyway...)
Personally i think something should be done about the prelink/updatedb-makes-computer-slow thing - it always happens when it is least convenient...
Kyrre