Fedora Core 4 Bootup

[Daizy]

I'm going to keep this short but I just wanted to say how nice FC4 really is.

The first time FC4 booted up I was amazed at how fast it booted up! On my computer XP wouldn't look very good in comparison, I keep rebooting just to see if it really was that fast!

BTW I don't use XP, I only installed it on my old harddisk so I could play HL2 *sic*. I cleared HL2 in two days and haven't used XP since, in fact I took the harddisk with XP on it out of the system. I only put the Harddisk back in two days ago to backup FC3!

Fedora Core 4 is going to be the Linux distro to beat this year. Gnome starts up faster, KDE is relatively quicker too, but it's the bootup! What have they done to improve kudzu & HAL I don't know but it's impressive!

Thankyou Fedora Core developers, you're really fantastic guys! I can't wait for my fellow computer using friends to see it boot, I'll just sit quietly confident as it cleans the floor with their OS's! hehehe.

Has anyone else found FC4's bootup time unbelieveable?

[92b16vx]

No, I haven't, it takes three minutes almost exactly to boot up fromselecting in grub till my desktop is running.

[bitrain]

32% faster then fc3

What have they done to improve kudzu & HAL I don't know but it's impressive!

They use your system 100% during bootup, while in fc3 it only used a part, say full harddrive but only a few % cpu (or something). I used bootchart to meassure the times, and that's where I saw how it booted, with what startng when.

[tudawggz]

I am currently running a PIII 450 and was running FC3. I just switched to FC4 and can already see a difference in speed overall. I don't know what all was done but it seems to be noticably faster all around.