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Red Hat Developing Early Login with gdm
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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Wait... are you talking about graphical login? Just boot don't load X on default, that will *seem* a lot faster.
I do it out of habit. But if you want to make it into a "go faster" feature, then pretend away!
http://monkeyserver.com --- weeeeee
when was the last time I booted this system???
some 20 days ago...
20:33:27 up 20 days, 23:41, 2 users, load average: 0.31, 0.35, 0.29
when was the last time I botted my other system???
20:34:40 up 293 days, 7:25, 7 users, load average: 0.25, 0.17, 0.10
why the F would I ever need an early logon to GDM???
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
It's not always a bad thing to fool the user if you can get away with it. Jef Raskin's Canon Cat system did exactly that. On starting up it would show the user a bitmap of what the user was last working on while it loaded up the actual data in the background. Then when it's ready, it would replace the bitmap with the actual display. The thing that Raskin figured out to make it work was that it took users a couple of seconds to reorient themselves and recall what they were doing, so they would just sit and stare at the screen for a bit. And the Cat can *always* load up the real data and be ready for input before the users themselves were "booted up."
But from TFA, it doesn't sound like the redhat guys are going to do it the right way, which means the users will figure out they've been fooled and you've just gone through all that trouble to piss them off.
The NIH syndrome runs so thick, here, that they'll try to reinvent SMF with makefiles and bash scripts. Bleh.