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Cheating: Not just for Microsoft anymoreCheating: Not just for Microsoft anymorePosted Sep 22, 2008 22:28 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Cheating: Not just for Microsoft anymore by SimonKagstrom Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
What if your application depends on data on a network share?
I figure the services your starting up are starting up for good reason and you'll probably have applications that depend on them. Otherwise, on a desktop, what is the point of starting them? :)
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Cheating: Not just for Microsoft anymore Posted Sep 23, 2008 7:35 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
The distribution sets them up so that the user doesn't have to know about them at all. E.g. the user doesn't have to know about CUPS in order to print. (Although I would be interested to know how many Linux users have succeeded in printing without knowing about CUPS.) Of course, that could also be made more intelligent - some services could be started when they are needed by default (I thought that was the point of upstart) and automatically moved to or from autostart on boot depending on how often the user needs them.
Cheating: Not just for Microsoft anymore Posted Sep 23, 2008 15:14 UTC (Tue) by macc (subscriber, #510) [Link]
CUPS is unpleasantly opaque.
It's either there or not after
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Cheating: Not just for Microsoft anymore Posted Sep 23, 2008 20:05 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
What's wrong with 'lprm'? It works for me.
Cheating: Not just for Microsoft anymore Posted Sep 23, 2008 9:08 UTC (Tue) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]
There are some daemons like spamd of spamassassin that are not necessary right after boot, so they could be started later in the background...
Cheating: Not just for Microsoft anymore Posted Sep 23, 2008 17:58 UTC (Tue) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]
Spam Assassin should just be started on first use; if you only use gmail for your email you shouldn't pay for it (both in time and memory) after all.
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