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Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy taskImproving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy taskPosted Sep 29, 2008 19:38 UTC (Mon) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)In reply to: Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy task by sbergman27 Parent article: Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy task
realistically; if I have to post one, ... ppt everyone can read.
On moblin.org the final one will be posted and that will likely be all formats (eg odp, pdf and ppt)
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Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy task Posted Sep 29, 2008 19:56 UTC (Mon) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]
> realistically; if I have to post one, ... ppt everyone can read.
Ouch. Everyone can't read ODF files? OpenOffice.org is not available for some important platforms?
Clearly this issue is off-topic, but important I think.
Though I am definitely not trying to detract from the work Arjan and others are doing on boot time reduction.
jake
Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy task Posted Sep 30, 2008 6:45 UTC (Tue) by Janne (guest, #40891) [Link]
"Ouch. Everyone can't read ODF files? OpenOffice.org is not available for
some important platforms?"
Just because something is available does not mean that it's installed. I'm
You can open ppt-files with all major office-suite (MS OFfice, Koffice,
That said, even better solution would have been to use a pdf-file.
Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy task Posted Sep 30, 2008 7:38 UTC (Tue) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]
> Should I install a behemoth of an office-suite on this machine, just so I could watch
one presentation?
No, just one plugin, that's freely available and may help you in such situations.
Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy task Posted Sep 30, 2008 14:00 UTC (Tue) by Janne (guest, #40891) [Link]
Or, instead of messing around with plugins, I could simply use a ppt-file
and be done with it.
Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy task Posted Oct 1, 2008 1:12 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
And like I say, if even the FOSS community uses MS formats to communicate between themselves, then ODF, dirac, ogg, and theora and the rest are already dead, and we may as well just give up. Have a little backbone, people!
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