Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 2026-07-29, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2026-07-29 17:04, John Ames wrote:
>> 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,
>
> Huh, no. Only servers do that. My laptop, for instance, would be
> hibernated or suspended twice per day; and as to uptime, it crashes
> during wake up some times.

As soon as you hibernate, I'd think the benefits reportedly gained by
e.g. systemd are less relevant, or not relevant at all, as the system
wouldn't go through the boot process, but would rather be restored in an
already booted state.

As for improvements, I'm quite happy with the speed and sequentiality I
can achieve with OpenRC, but of course there's no reason why there can't
be faster approaches and parallelization for cases where it's
needed/desired, I think OpenRC also does some parallelization too if
desired, for example.

>> 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 can't forget the moment a couple decades ago where I realized my
Pentium II desktop was booting into the login prompt much, much faster
than a Windows Vista laptop took to get to its login screen... and that
was a Pentium II with less performant I/O than more current hardware. It
might be obvious in hindsight, perhaps especially given the absence of a
graphical login manager, but still fascinating to realize.

-- 
Nuno Silva