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From: Joshua Pierre <joshua@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Start enhancement
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 07:55:31
Message-Id: 20011203215456.C13834@swool.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Start enhancement by Sebastian Werner
1 On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:46:21AM +0100 or thereabouts, Sebastian Werner wrote:
2 > I have a good dream last night. Some days ago I find the tool from
3 > Microsoft to optimize the boot time of their new system (winxp). The
4 > idea is to run some services to system-init parallel. Or in other words:
5 > Why we must wait for samba to start xdm. Couldn't we use the
6 > multitaskting experience of linux in our init-scripts. So we can start
7 > Linux in near the half time I think. Good or bad idea?
8
9 Not sure if it is possible but maybe a manual way to set the order in which the init scripts start.
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11 However, a few of the init scripts might have whacky depends making things wait uncessarily.
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13 Who knows but a way to manually change the boot order would be great but as I said above I am not sure if it is possible or not.
14
15 Cheers,
16
17 --
18 Joshua Pierre
19 Developer & Release Technician
20 Themes.Org -- Open Source Interface Enhancement

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Start enhancement Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly@×××××.com>