On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 05:43:58PM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > I have been a contributor to an Open Source project over a number of years. > A lot of the devs seems to use Debian testing which means I often find I > have to deal with (often minor, fortunately) dependency hell to be able to > recompile the program when I haven't done so in a while. > > I was trying out a Debian based version of Armbian and was impressed by how > easy it was to get it up and running. I've been thinking of switching to > Debian from Linux Mint. I decided to have another look at the Debian 12 > install I have on one of the root partitions I have for other OSs. I was > *not* impressed. > > It took about 7 minutes to from boot to login page. It takes so long that > the system that provides the splash screen during boot gave up and it > changed to a black screen during the last part of the boot process. After I > enter my name and password it took about another 7 minutes to get to the > desktop. Under Linux mint boot to desktop takes about 3 minutes. > > Any clues as to why Debian takes 4 to 5 times as long? I'm hoping there is > some bad configuration out of the box causing Debian 12 to be acting so > slow. Anyone have any ideas where I should start looking? If I can't get to > the bottom of the problem I will be staying with Linux Mint. Perhaps LMDE > might be worth a try instead of pure Debian.
In my experience slow boot time is almost always a network configuration problem causing some network service to take minutes to time out. Of course I wouldn't expect that if it is a fresh install, more likely after upgrading. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
