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Faster boot

Posted Jan 19, 2005 21:57 UTC (Wed) by Soruk (guest, #2722)
In reply to: Faster boot by climent
Parent article: Fedora Core 4 plans announced

Oh dear. Why does this remind me of NT4, where the login prompt appeared before most of the services had started?

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Faster boot

Posted Jan 20, 2005 7:32 UTC (Thu) by jeld (guest, #22397) [Link]

≤sarcasm> Because end-users are ~~stupid~~ impatient. So, everyone tries to start the nice GUI screen as fast as possible. Generaly this doesn't cause problems unless some overzealous geek tweaks his system into oblivion and then complaints that it doesn't work ≤/sarcasm>