Why Windows is Slow

[H_TeXMeX_H]

I tried it on FC5 on my laptop ... it's like driving a McLaren F1 into brick wall. Tons of fatal errors ... ending in "Failed to load X-Server"

[piratePenguin]

I'm not aware of a single distro that uses it right now...

Foresight's the only distro I know of that uses it. I like what the Foresight guys are doing (conary for software management, all the latest GNOME stuff, brilliant mono programs beagle and f-spot, hal and avahi... Damn I really must get using it (even though I tend not to like newbie-stuff)).

Is that related to the projects to use makefiles for the init procedures? I read about those... lightning fast.

Hm, makefiles, that sounds like a cool idea. initng doesn't use makefiles, here's a sample config file for starting/stopping samba:

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service daemon/samba/smbd {
        need = system/initial system/mountroot virtual/networking
        daemon = /usr/sbin/smbd
        daemon_args = -F
}
service daemon/samba/nmbd {
        need = system/initial system/mountroot virtual/networking
        daemon = /usr/sbin/nmbd
        daemon_args = -F
}


service daemon/samba {
        also_stop = daemon/samba/smbd daemon/samba/nmbd
        need = daemon/samba/smbd daemon/samba/nmbd
}Using makefiles would be cool. Mightn't make it faster (they're the same kinda idea), but it'd be cool.

Have you used it PiratePenguin?

Yup.

I don't think boot-speed is all that important. But any GNU/Linux user that does can just optimize their init scripts or use initng (I use initng myself. I just decided to try it and now I couldn't be fucked changing it (nothing wrong with the way it is). It boots in about the same time as the usual sysvinit (six seconds when I last compared (which was before I had much stuff starting at boot)) because I start so little stuff at boot.

Still using it. Version 0.3.3. They're up to 0.6.0 now so I'll install that, set it up to start apache, mysql and everything else I want (something I intended on doing around now anyhow) and then try the same stuff with the old init (which I kept), and report back.

I tried it on FC5 on my laptop ... it's like driving a McLaren F1 into brick wall. Tons of fatal errors ... ending in "Failed to load X-Server"

I'm not too surprised. You'd need to configure the thing... Like the file they distribute for starting xdm (the X display manager) loads it from /usr/bin/xdm, xdm could be in /usr/X11R6/bin/ on your system.

I also noticed just starting to compile the new version you can configure it to have/not to have SELinux support.

Is it  compatible with Ubuntu?

Sure. You might need to do some manual configuring though. They've got a page about installing on Debian/Ubuntu. Doesn't look increadibly reliable, but it's a starting place.

[piratePenguin]

Feckit I couldn't be arsed telling it how to start apache and friends so I get lodsa warnings at boot up. The kernel takes about 5 seconds to boot and then after another 5 or so KDM starts loading up and takes about 15 seconds to finish.

Beats waiting 10 seconds for KDM to start loading up...

KDM is a slow bastard... Must start using XDM.