"For a long time, Linux has been blamed to boot slowly, compared to other modern operating systems. In this article, we are going to focus on a new init system we developed for our Pardus Linux distribution, Mudur, together with other initiatives that are worth mentioning. Mudur is written from scratch in Python with simplicity, speed and maintainability in mind. It isn't a replacement for the /sbin/init command like some other alternatives, nor just a parallel script executor. Mudur greatly simplified our boot process, making it faster and more flexible. Authors look forward for future boot process research for further improvement and optimizations."
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Member since:2005-09-29
These things feels snappy on windows compared with linux; but It's not a big deal for non professionals who are not much demanding.
I think you got that mixed up. Professionals don't give a shit about whether their system boots up in 30 or 60 seconds. Non-professional kids do.
Member since:2005-07-12
>> I think you got that mixed up. Professionals don't
>> give a shit about whether their system boots up in
>> 30 or 60 seconds. Non-professional kids do.
I agree with that on desktops, in fact it's a good point in that realm - but I'd argue it on servers. Downtime, ANY downtime is bad, yet there are still times where the only REAL answer, even in the *nix world, is a good old-fashioned reboot. When you are doing "shutdown -r now" across an SSH session, every second that server is down for reboot is a nail biting, white knuckle, please let it come back up nightmare... Especially if you have any sort of traffic that's suddenly IM'ing you en-masse "Did the server just go down?" despite a mass e-mail and announcement on the site(s) every day for three days.
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2005-07-06
They are starting to touch features not seen but in professional and commercial level OSs.
Boot time and I/O Wait Times are one of the most important performance areas all linux distros should concentrate on; then they should concentrate on HDD file system then Networking Performance via smbfs (or cifs).
These things feels snappy on windows compared with linux; but It's not a big deal for non professionals who are not much demanding.
Nice move from linux world, and I wish every linux user a happy computing day.