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How To Speed Up Linux Booting

Posted by kdawson on from the up-and-running dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A common complaint about Linux is the amount of time the operating system takes to start. Like Linux itself, there are plenty of options and lots of flexibility for boot-time optimization. From dependency-based solutions like initng to event-based solutions like upstart, there's an optimization solution that should fit your needs. Using the bootchart package, you can dig in further to understand where your system is spending its boot time to optimize even more."

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  1. -1st post by Looce · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Linux setup is so optimised that this first post is actually made before opening Firefox and typing slashdot.org.

    Ha!

    1. Re:-1st post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I win: busybox with lynx in the initramfs.

      Oh, wait, this isn't NerdClue?

    2. Re:-1st post by alanwj · · Score: 3, Funny

      and typing slashdot.org
      Slashdot isn't your home page?
  2. Re:Popular FUD. by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 5, Funny

    12:47:33 up 65 days, 15:12, 21 users, load average: 1.20, 1.50, 1.61 21 users on a laptop? Doesn't it get a bit crowded around the keyboard?
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  3. Boot times don't bother me by DoctorPepper · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because I only reboot my computers when I have to, like when I get an update to the kernel. The rest of the time, they just waste electricity and CPU cycles, and generate excess heat my A/C unit has to deal with! :-)

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  4. I have a computer that boots in about 5 sec by gosand · · Score: 2, Funny
    The only reason you can say that 50 seconds seems pretty quick is that most of us remember when several minutes was he norm.

    And some of us remember when it was about 5 seconds.

    Of course, that was a TRS-80. :)

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