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Can X be started earlier?

Can X be started earlier?

Posted Jul 22, 2004 14:59 UTC (Thu) by southey (subscriber, #9466)
In reply to: Kernel Summit: kexec and fast booting by smoogen
Parent article: Kernel Summit: kexec and fast booting

It would seem to me that you should be able to get X running before Linux is completely booted for users that want a GUI. Now with the XFree86 fork, perhaps it will be possible to initialize the kernel and X with perhaps the user's GUI of choice. It also seems that it should take advantage of multiple cpus and hyperthreading when available.


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