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Red Hat Developing Early Login with gdm

Posted by timothy on from the psychological-coup dept.

hey writes "Red Hat has been working on early login because, among other reasons, 'If we start GDM sooner, the system will "feel" faster because the user will see a login screen sooner.' Very cool."

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  1. Good idea. I hope Red Hat patents it.... by Picass0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... before it becomes a Microsoft 'feature'.

  2. awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tell yah, if there's one thing I love more than making my software, simpler, faster, and more effective, it's making it *appear* to be simpler, faster, and more effective. ;-)

  3. Re:Not very cool by WarPresident · · Score: 2, Funny

    I turn on the computer. I go to the bathroom. I get up and go get a drink, and when I come back it's ready to use. You can't remove both delays, and you're just hiding one in the other. It's pointless.

    Kid, you don't know what waiting is until you've flicked the 3-inch long toggle switch of your 80286-16MHz Workstation to "ON", gone to the bathroom, gotten your coffee, talked to a few people in the break room, returned to your desk, and waited another few minutes for your application to finish loading before you could get any work done.

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    Here come da fudge!