Xfce in the news

[Biju Chacko]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> On 12/6/2005 12:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
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>>On 2005-12-06, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
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>>>First look: BeleniX live CD
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>>>http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/02/185257&from=rss
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>>>"When the CD-ROM disk light stops glowing, you are staring at a 
>>>beautifully done XFCE desktop running on top of xorg. "
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>>A boot time of 10 minutes?!
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>>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.
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> Did you bother to read the next few sentences?
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> "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.

I have one of those live CDs. The boot is kinda slow but it's nowhere 
near 10 minutes. More like 4-5 minutes.

-- b