Xfce in the news

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 12/6/2005 12:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2005-12-06, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> 
>>First look: BeleniX live CD
>>
>>http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/02/185257&from=rss
>>
>>"When the CD-ROM disk light stops glowing, you are staring at a 
>>beautifully done XFCE desktop running on top of xorg. "
> 
> 
> A boot time of 10 minutes?!
> 
> XFCE is nice and all, but if I'm going to wait 10 minutes for a
> machine to boot, it better be handing out free ice cream cones
> when it gets done.

Did you bother to read the next few sentences?

"A little searching on Google reveals that the lethargic boot is due to
a setting in the OpenSolaris kernel to make it more stable. The kernel
boots with DEBUG turned on. The developers of BeleniX are testing
turning off debug selectively for a couple of modules. Their tests show
a reduction of about 2.5 minutes."

Xfce only takes a few seconds to load on that kind of hardware.  The
slow boot time is Solaris' fault.

	-brian

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