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Wow - what happend to Fedora
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:17 pm
by IceMan
Hi,
I've just installed Fedora Core 5. Wow! does it boot fast, Gnome up and running in approx 40 sec. That's a new speed record on my humble 2.6 Ghz P4
and it looks really nice too (IMO)...
Those guys must have tweaked the boot process quite a lot !
However don't think I will give up my SUSE 10 installation. Speed isn't everything
Re: Wow - what happend to Fedora
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:52 pm
by CptnObvious999
IceMan wrote:Hi,
I've just installed Fedora Core 5. Wow! does it boot fast, Gnome up and running in approx 40 sec. That's a new speed record on my humble 2.6 Ghz P4
and it looks really nice too (IMO)...
Those guys must have tweaked the boot process quite a lot !
However don't think I will give up my SUSE 10 installation. Speed isn't everything
I get mine done in under 30 seconds last time I checked (im using a AMD 3700+ overclocked to 2.7GHz). Anyways they probly just got rid of some unnecessary services at startup.
Re: Wow - what happend to Fedora
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:54 pm
by Tsuroerusu
IceMan wrote:However don't think I will give up my SUSE 10 installation. Speed isn't everything
Good choice man!
I've played with the beta versions of SUSE 10.1, and I gotta tell ya, you have something to look forward to, it's looking to be a really really cool release.
Re: Wow - what happend to Fedora
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:44 am
by Gomer_X
IceMan wrote:Hi,
I've just installed Fedora Core 5. Wow! does it boot fast, Gnome up and running in approx 40 sec. That's a new speed record on my humble 2.6 Ghz P4
They've made some structural changes to the Gnome boot process. I think some of it is just default Gnome 2.14 changes. They've also messed with HAL and udev. Details are in the
release notes. I'm pretty sure they haven't removed services to speed up the boot process, although they're working on various ways to start services in parallel.
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:02 pm
by snarkout
I imagine they've removed hotplug, which usually takes quite a while to do its thing during bootup.
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:10 pm
by Gomer_X
Snarkout wrote:I imagine they've removed hotplug, which usually takes quite a while to do its thing during bootup.
Something like that. They've removed fstab-sync and are using gnome-mount instead to automount stuff.
I've got the ISOs downloaded, but haven't bothered to install yet. I usually give it a few weeks and watch the mailing list for problems. I need a working system more than I need new features. Even FC5 test1 was pretty stable, but I'm in no hurry.