<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><font size="2"><p>You can turn off all nonessential services. There is also a parallel startup possible. Is that upstart? <br><br>John Van Ostrand , CTO, co-CEO<br>Net Direct Inc.<br>564 Weber St. N. Unit 12<br>Waterloo, ON N2L 5C6<br>Ph: 519-883-1172<br>Fx: 519-883-8533<br>http://www.netdirect.ca<br></p></font><hr><font size="2"><p><b> From: </b>Daniel Jolkowski [danijolk@yahoo.com]<br><b> Sent: </b>12/17/2009 08:54 AM PST<br><b> To: </b>KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br><b> Subject: </b>Re: [kwlug-disc] Decrease boot time<br></p></font><br>
<div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Custom kernel, have your modules built into it. No initrd. </DIV>
<DIV>Not that I've done any of this myself. My eee, that doesn't work much, will boot in 8 seconds.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Daniel<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px"><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>
<HR SIZE=1>
<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Insurance Squared Inc. <gcooke@insurancesquared.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, December 17, 2009 8:30:02 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [kwlug-disc] Decrease boot time<BR></FONT><BR>I was reading about complaints on boot time with windows 7 (talk of it eventually degrading to taking 6 minutes to boot) and it got me thinking.<BR><BR>Is there anything in linux that folks do to decrease boot time? Specifically the desktop because of course I only reboot my webservers every few years when we're doing something hardware related.<BR><BR><BR>-- Glenn Cooke<BR>Insurance Squared Inc.<BR>(866) 779-1499<BR><A href="http://www.insurancesquared.com/" target=_blank>www.insurancesquared.com</A><BR><BR>Insurance Agent Discussion Forum:<BR><A
href="http://www.americaninsurancebroker.com/" target=_blank>www.americaninsurancebroker.com</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR><A href="http://kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/" target=_blank>kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</A> mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org" ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org</A><BR>http://astoria.ccjclearline.com/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<BR></DIV></DIV><!-- cg18.c4.mail.gq1.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Tue Dec 8 19:27:04 PST 2009 --></div><br>
</body></html>