Re:Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released
by mwcampbell on Saturday May 04, 2013 @10:35PM
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What is wrong with Debian's KVM support?
and with upstart &co
I'm unable to determine if you mean upstart to be a Good Thing, or a Bad Thing, or anything in between.
To me, switching back from Ubuntu to Debian was a blessing. And I simply cannot understand this need to decrease boottimes. My laptop boots into Debian under 12 seconds. That is pretty fast. Under Ubuntu, I timed it at 10 seconds.
2 seconds boottime? Is that what this upstart/systemd hastle is all about? I just do not get that.
""Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?" "
I don't know. I mean, the trend has been hand-held devices and laptops for the past decade or so. They don't get booted every day and will be less and less. All the while, devices are getting faster hardware, making the difference even less.
Too me, it still seems not worth breaking a working standard (SysV) over.
Personally, I just use Ubuntu. It's Debian unstable but shinier. :)