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Booting Linux Faster
krony writes "IBM's DeveloperWorks explains how to decrease boot times for your Linux box. The concept is to load system services in parallel when possible. Most surprising to me is the use of 'make' to handle dependencies between services." The example system shown is able to cut its boot time in half, but the article stresses the effectiveness can vary widly from machine to machine.
...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.
I'm sure this will be controversial, but trolls need love too. In fact, trolls probably need more love than your average slashbot - slashbots get positive reinforcement, after all.
There. I've stated the painful truth: trolls need love. Now let me tell you why.
Most of us were abused as children, or are being abused now, or have suffered mightily in some way. We have self esteem problems, we don't have confidence, we don't feel loved. We want positive attention and all the things "normal" people have, but we feel like we are unworthy of it.
An old saying rings true here: "If the only potato chip a hungry child can have is a soggy potato chip, there is nothing more important to that child than the soggy potato chip." Well, that describes us trolls perfectly. We are hungry for attention and all we know is that we do not warrant positive attention, so we type "fristus postus" and post goatse links and shoot for the negative potato chip of a (-1 Troll), or a (-1 lamebait). Off-yopic and redundant mods are like half a soggy potato chip - just enough to whet the appetite for more.
So do the world a favor. end the cycle of abuse. Mod one troll - just one, that's all it takes - up, and you will be rewarded for life because you gave a hungry child a dry potato chip. Share the love, won't you?
I don't feel like reading the article. My WinXPHome system boots even faster than linux. Especially since I have auto-login as Administrator/admin. Post your thoughts please.
I rarely have to boot ever after the first boot and patch!
hes funny
No first boot trolls?
--- You know it's bad when
bash-2.05a$ fortune
bash: fortune: command not found
aww shit, I guess when you press back for submitting a reply to soon, the "Post Anonymously" box doens't stay checked. :-\
get with the program linux
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
You've been made sir. You have been betrayed by your browser. As you can understand you will be the first one to come to mind everytime we read a bewulf cluster/soviet russia/profit list/goatse.cx post. :)
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Ever hear of a "straw man argument"? Well thats exactly what you are making. You invent a problem (in this case "all Linux support sucks")
The problem wasn't "all Linux support sucks." The problem was "There is a sense of snideness in the Linux community, and trying to ask for support is one of those examples of snideness."
My final paragraph was more to silence anyone who might have asked "Have you tried Linux?" more than to "brag" about the state of my computer or add to my argument.
I'm trying to get a quirky PC to boot Debian 3r1, and I can't get it to boot without the rescue floppy.
LILO gave L 40 40 (repeat indefinitely) at first. I added
device hda=0x80
to lilo.conf and that replaced the L 40's with just LI. Compiled a 2.4 kernel, and now I get
LILO
L
instead of
LILO
Uncompressing Linux......................
so I decided to try GRUB, and now the system boots to the grub CLI, and when I try to specify my 2.4 kernel, I get Error 13, unknown or unsupported kernel format. I'm currently recompiling the kernel as a.out format instead of ELF, but it'll take another hour.
Anyone have any tips? And no, the PC isn't bad, or the RAM, or the hdd's.. I've had this machine running for about four years.. it ran multiple versions of RH6 and 7 before they decided to require a minimum of 64MB RAM. Any help on getting GRUB working would be appreciated.
Intelligent Life on Earth
Do you have a sourceforge page for your sig? How about a bug tracker, forums, and mailing list?
If not, you're not a real open source developer.
First "in soviet russia..." joke I've heard in a while that actually made me smile. Originality is the key.
Mod his ass down in the grandparent post.
You're right, I was being an ass. Funny how the moderators thought that my comment was (5, Insightful).
Good point, you have every right to be an ass.
Moderators: Don't mod up people who are being asses.
Aren't you guys editors?
effectiveness can vary widly from machine to machine.
Widely?
Wildly?
GF.
Lots of petrified grits
Apparently, not every /.er has a shift key, either. Or a sense of humor.
XML causes global warming.