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jordanwb
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 Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject: Aww yeah. 0 to Gnome in 55 seconds |
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A couple of months ago my laptop was running ArchLinux and it took ~ 1 minute and 40 seconds to get to Gnome. Now with Gentoo + OpenRC it takes 55 seconds to get from Grub to Gnome. I didn't include the time it took my laptop to POST and get to Grub because I can't speed that up (unless someone knows something). I haven't finished installing other packages like VLC and OpenOffice (I think I may want the binary version) but I've exceeded my expectations.
Thanks to the dudes here that helped me get my Thinkpad going.
I'm gonna make a backup now.
Next project may be getting my Desktop PC to boot to Gnome in 30 seconds. Ubuntu takes too much damn time.
I've learned quite a bit - more or less Gentoo specific. |
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spupy
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Nice to hear that your laptop is working good with gentoo and that you learned new stuff. 
Good thing I riced out my gentoo install - now it boots to the desktop environment in ~35s. This saves me so much time when I reboot my machine 20 times a day.
I'm sorry about the sarcasm, but you will later realize that these things are just silly and irrelevant. Better get that before becoming an "omg-optimizations" nerd. I don't use gentoo because it boots faster than ubuntu, but that certainly did impress me at first.
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alistair
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:58 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Aww yeah. 0 to Gnome in 55 seconds |
I see you have uncovered the downside of openrc. 
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jordanwb
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| alistair wrote: | | I see you have uncovered the downside of openrc. |
Who are you saying that to? |
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alistair
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:12 am Post subject: |
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| jordanwb wrote: | | alistair wrote: | | I see you have uncovered the downside of openrc. |
Who are you saying that to? |
Does this help.
| alistair wrote: | | Quote: | | Aww yeah. 0 to Gnome in 55 seconds |
I see you have uncovered the downside of openrc.
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jordanwb
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:22 am Post subject: |
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| I'm currently having problems with VLC (no video with xvid, have installed xvid package), but other than that I'm not having any problems. I may have my Core2 Desktop compile Firefox though. |
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cokey
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| jordanwb wrote: | | I'm currently having problems with VLC (no video with xvid, have installed xvid package), but other than that I'm not having any problems. I may have my Core2 Desktop compile Firefox though. |
are you asking for help?
If you want your box to start up faster have a look at eINIT which can get you from grub to X in 7 seconds
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jordanwb
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| cokehabit wrote: | | jordanwb wrote: | | I'm currently having problems with VLC (no video with xvid, have installed xvid package), but other than that I'm not having any problems. I may have my Core2 Desktop compile Firefox though. |
are you asking for help? |
No I fixed that.
| cokehabit wrote: | | If you want your box to start up faster have a look at eINIT which can get you from grub to X in 7 seconds |
Interesting. |
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