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jtpenrod:
quote:i work as a graphic designer/ animator and my machine is never off. Who cares how long it takes to boot up? if thats the only argument windoids have then that sounds good to me. fuck 'em.
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Yeah, I've heard that too. With Linux, you just boot it up and let it run. So it takes a little longer to boot. Fast booting is important to Winderz (l)users since they have to do it so often.
The reason that Winderz boots so fast is that it's not designed in the modular manner that Linux is. It is also the reason why an application cock-up in Win* will bring down the whole OS. If something fails in Linux, you just kill the misbehaving app, and everything continues to work right. I'll take that over a somewhat faster boot time any day
Of course, you can speed the boot times up by not going into graphical mode on boot, and you can always edit your /etc/inittab file to this:
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That'll put you into Run Level 3, pure command line (Slack has this as its default). You'll have to enter "startx" at the command prompt to activate X and the graphical desktop.
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TheKnifeThrower:
quote:Originally posted by Stryker:
I turn windows on, under 8 seconds I get a desktop with no disk activity.
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The fastest I ever got a PC to boot up was a P2400 with 64mb of ram and windows95b on it. It took 30 seconds to get to the desktop and to stop disk activity.
Stryker:
quote:Originally posted by TheKnifeThrower:
The fastest I ever got a PC to boot up was a P2400 with 64mb of ram and windows95b on it. It took 30 seconds to get to the desktop and to stop disk activity.
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AMD Athlon XP 2700+ w/ 512mb RAM PC2700 333FSP 60gb EIDE 7200rpm UDMA5 (100mb/s)... but i'm getting a scsi.
How about something similiar to the hibernate feature?
solo:
my pc usually boots in about 25 seconds without my misbehaving second hard drive in, which takes 30 seconds for the kernel to timeout on trying to contact (im sure winderz does that too). 25 seconds is fine for me, because I only reboot once every 2 or 3 days (alrhough some misbehaving sound app has been opening /dev/dsp and not closing it, really pissing me off. i think someone should make a kernel module for flushing unclosed abandoned file descriptors)
solo:
im gonna try and make my redhat box boot as fast as possible.... so stryker: youll be hearing from me on that
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