Star Improving Boot Time on a General Linux Distribution
Linked by David Adams on Mon 29th Sep 2008 02:58 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris Mandriva has done quite a lot of work on optimizing boot speed for its latest release, Mandriva Linux 2009. Frederic Crozat (head of the French engineering team) has written a blog post summarizing Mandriva's past work on this front, and the tweaks and improvements made for 2009. It shows that close analysis of inefficiencies in boot, and fixing 'small' bugs, can result in gains as large or larger than 'big picture' items like new initialization systems.
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RE[4]: Comment by agrouf
by Laurence on Mon 29th Sep 2008 09:35 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Comment by agrouf"
Laurence
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I just hope that every damn distribution does not create its own init system. There is just no reason to keep reinventing the wheel. This is just hell for anyone trying to make their applications work across distributions.


Maybe, but personally I see that as one of the selling points between different distros.

For example: I prefer BSD's init approach and when I need to fall back to linux, the distro I choose tends to be one with BSD influences (Slack, Arch, etc)

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