Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

Chris Ahlstrom <[email protected]> writes:

> John Ames wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):
>
>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:25:18 -0400
>> Chris Ahlstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> And systemd seems to be to be a good thing. It sure minimizes boot
>>> times.
>>
>> Does anybody really care about boot times anymore? *nix uptimes can
>> generally be measured in months or years, and off an SSD even my pokey
>> little Eee 904 (running Devuan with sysvinit) goes from zero to display
>> manager in less than a minute.
>
> I care about boot times for my main laptop, as I don't use the
> suspend or hibernate functionality. Once past the 5-second GRUB
> screen, it's 10 seconds until sddm gives the login prompt.
>
> The only downside is that sometimes a 90-second needless wait time
> occurs before shutdown. I shortened that a lot, but it came back.

I tried Void Linux very recently and the start-up time is very
impressive.  It doesn't run systemd.  It runs runit, a beautiful daemon
manager.