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Cheating: Not just for Microsoft anymoreCheating: Not just for Microsoft anymorePosted Sep 27, 2008 15:22 UTC (Sat) by keybuk (subscriber, #18473)In reply to: Cheating: Not just for Microsoft anymore by madscientist Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
Actually, it isn't true.
If you look at the Ubuntu boot sequence, while gdm isn't the last thing
We deliberately don't keep starting services throughout login, because as
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Log-in screen Posted Oct 7, 2008 22:41 UTC (Tue) by pgan (guest, #54573) [Link]
The log-in screen should be shown as early as possible (before even X) and should not block the boot process. Thus the computer would be usable earlier, because the boot process would continue while the user is typing her password. This is especially important for users who are slow to authenticate -- some users take about 4 seconds. With a normal boot, they would wait n seconds to see the log-in screen, spend m extra seconds logging in, then wait d seconds till they can use the desktop. If they can authenticate after x second while the computer is booting, they only wait max(n - x, m) + d seconds to use the computer.
With a long boot, this also allows users to authenticate themselves whenever is convenient for them, rather than waiting to do it at the right time for the machine.
And, knowing which user is logging in will allow further parallelization of loading the user's desktop components and services. That will reduce the time "d" required to start up the desktop.
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