On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:19:56 -0000 (GMT) "Dhruba Bandopadhyay"
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(B> <quote who="Carsten Haitzler">
(B> > if i had the time... i'd do a distro. just for myself of all people! :)
(B> > i'd love
(B> > to actually do a distro that's stripped down - no "apache" no "mysql" no
(B> > "openldap" in fact no gimp, etc. basically just what u need to install,
(B> > log in,
(B> > and run a terminal, download some files, maybe browse a website or 3, read
(B> > e-mail. all things like "gimp" would be add-on packages (of course an easy
(B> > to
(B> > use package fetcher would be included), but all of this is a side-line.
(B> > i'd like
(B> > to make it ULTRA FAST to boot. make it boot in about 3-5 seconds to your
(B> > login
(B> > manager. this is perfectly possible. in fact it can be done in under
(B> > seconds if
(B> > you REALLY want (it's been done) :)
(B>
(B> Many including me use Gentoo which fulfil above requirements for precisely
(B> those reasons. The bare time to boot has been 10-15 seconds before I
(B> added cups, apache and other stuff to run levels. And that's with
(B> framebuffer and bootsplash. See here for example.
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(Bframebuffer and splashscreens don't kill the boot time - its init and the tonne
(Bof over-engineered SCRIPTS that do (well ok a lot of excess kernel probing
(Btoo...) i'd want to replace init with a dependency system that doesn't use
(Binefficient scripts to run your system.
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(B> --
(B> Dhruba Bandopadhyay // dhruba [AT] codewordt.co.uk
(B> ICQ: 31628525 // MSN: bdhruba [AT] msn.com
(B> Use Gentoo Linux! // http://www.gentoo.org/
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