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- reddikilowatt, on 11/23/2008, -0/+56Real nerds disable quiet boot.
- squarepegs, on 11/23/2008, -0/+37For the non-Ubuntu users wondering what all the fuss is about:
When you boot Ubuntu, you get a big Ubuntu logo with a progress bar... it crawls up to about 10-20% full and then stops there for a loooong time. You start to think "well if it took me 30 seconds to get here and I'm only 1/10th done......." and before you know it, it jumps to about 80% and then flies through the rest.
When I installed Ubuntu on a family computer for my mom, she was convinced that the whole computer was slower based just on that. First impressions count, so I appreciate the effort to polish this up. - strangeman, on 11/22/2008, -0/+29Hey.. great work you've done there! I think there's more important improvements to be done, but still I very much like it!
- Vadi0, on 11/22/2008, -1/+27Download: http://ubuntu-art.org/content/download.php?content ...
PPA for easier updating: https://launchpad.net/%7Eusplash-smooth/+archive (don't know how to use one? see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubu ...
Vote on brainstorm: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/15741/ - Culyt, on 11/23/2008, -3/+28There is absolutely no need to keep a system up 24/7 unless its a server or acting as one in some capacity (ie torrent downloading), your just wasting money and killing puppies because of global warming. You like killing puppies don't you, you terrorist.
Besides, there are laptops to consider.
☢ - MrSarcasm, on 11/23/2008, -1/+19I fully understand that a website full of desperate geeks (myself included) seems like a good place to spam this *****, but you've missed the fact that those geeks are compsci geeks... soooo...
buried, reported, and GTFO. - glinsvad, on 11/23/2008, -0/+18Real nerds brag about uptime.
- srg13, on 11/23/2008, -2/+19Sounds good, but really I think there's little point to Usplash - why not just start the X server a little earlier so you can show a nicer splash like Fedora's Plymouth project? It doesn't take that long to start up, and you're going to have to wait for it to do it sometime, so why not earlier on?
- Culyt, on 11/23/2008, -1/+17Personally I would prefer to see RedHat's plymouth in Ubuntu, although there is no reason not to use a smooth progress bar with that (if it doesn't already...).
Infos (& videos starting pg3): http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item ...
☢ - jimminy, on 11/23/2008, -0/+12Thank you, I have been waiting this for years.
- juliohm, on 11/23/2008, -2/+12This makes so much more sense than the progress bar we had before. Little do we care about what's happening under the boot process. And even if you are interested... still, no mortal human can possibly read what's happening on that endless stream of strings you see on the screen (hence /var/log/*).
More importantly is when will the pain ever stop! - inactive, on 11/23/2008, -1/+10these small things add up to a lot and thats has made what ubuntu is today. even just a year or so ago thinking compiz being standard on ubuntu would have been crazy speak but incremental work added up to what it is now. But still nothing beat the hidden Alternate boot up screen in vista.
- plagiats, on 11/23/2008, -1/+9As posted on the forum : I claim the original idea for this !
For those who read french : http://linuxfr.org/~plagiats/9164.html
But more seriously, congratulations to volanin for making this a reality. - mynameistux, on 11/23/2008, -2/+10you came all the way in here, to say that?
GTFO - Gherald, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6
D=$(uptime|grep -io ' [0-9]* days'|grep -oE '[0-9]+');echo -n '8';while [ $D -gt 0 ];do echo -n =;D=$((D-1));done;echo D
I've seen a short perl script for this somewhere. - doctordbx, on 11/23/2008, -2/+8Eye Candy... the killer Ubuntu app.
- Osirus1156, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6When I first installed Ubuntu I thought it had frozen haha.
- PsychTouch, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6A sweet feature that i've been using since i first saw it on gnome look without any problem. i hope it will be included in Jenna Jameson.
- metalgel, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6thanks i installed and it works great. beautiful and dugg!
- paulsmith288, on 11/23/2008, -0/+5whos got the biggest big e-*****
- Evolutuon, on 11/23/2008, -0/+5For Intrepid Ibex only.*
- GavinZac, on 11/23/2008, -1/+5You're going this in every Ubuntu topic, regardless of the article. Either ignore the linux section, or stop spamming.
- secrity, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4I don't normally care about what is going on under the boot process, but I like to pay attention to it to make sure that nothing weird is going on.
Recently, on an HP-UX server, I found that the dba had messed with an Oracle start script which caused the boot to stall for several seconds. - inactive, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Don't you mean, "the Linux equivalent of Windows"? Either way you're still a retard.
- slusig, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Faster boot times is in the Jaunty blue prints...
https://launchpad.net/sprints/uds-jaunty/+specs - shotgunefx, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3I guess I'm not human, because I usually disable quiet and bootsplash. Then again, most of the time I'm rebooting, it's cause I changed something or are diagnosing something.
- dacheetah, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2@Gherald:
That is awesomely funny.
It's a pity that my server was restarted (actually a full fresh install) 12 days ago, and the one machine I've got access to with ~1 year of uptime is running SunOS 5.9, and grep on that is so odl it doesn't like half the arguments used in that "script". - Culyt, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2May I recommend trying ctrl+alt+f1, ctrl+alt+backspace and alt+sysrq+k. (sysrq is printscreen key).
You might be able to kill your frozen GUI without needing a whole reboot. (With that said I get random total freeze-ups that the magickeys don't help with, but I think its a broken videocard since it also popsup artifacts.
☢ - Sammi84, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2You should try making a tread about your issues on ubuntuforums.org
I've been helped a lot on that forum, and try to put my past experience to good use by helping others when able. I'd venture to say that the helpfulness of this forum is one major contributing factor to the triumph of Ubuntu as a Linux distribution. - kayuri, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2I am using Ubuntu on my desktop from version 6.04 and it seems like it is evolves faster and faster!
- kd420, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Wow, really cool. I just installed it on my machine by compiling it with my green splash and it works amazingly well.
- willwillywilson, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2Great. Sense my system crashes all the time and my bootup takes forever I finally have something pretty to stare at!
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -5/+6dugg cus the article is about ubuntu
- Biznarie, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1Ubuntu 10.10 Jenna Jameson
- noisymime, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Great. Can't wait for kernel based mode setting either. That's gonna rock compared to Windows.
- thebeez, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2Sir, are you suggesting that Jenna Jameson runs on Linux? Jenna Jameson another distro of Linux?
- EstT, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1Yup
- westyvw, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1I have a novel idea, why doesnt the Ubuntu team work on booting up faster instead? Ubuntu is slow at most things and boot is one of em.
Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY1xAiNnPTc
Or this amazing project: Mach Boot Linux which leaves you at the desktop from a live CD usually in about 10 seconds. http://www.machboot.com/ - dacheetah, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1My server is a laptop.
But the screen is broken (LCD physically damaged) so it's also basically a headless server.
But yeah, on my main laptop this would certainly make it prettier. - digi691, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1It is a file share server and hosts several other services for myself. Since its a 65W cpu, w/ 2 green drives, headless, and cpu load is very low it equals about the same as a 75W light bulb and a ceiling fan on low. To bad your killing puppies cycling you desktop with all the inrush amps until your desktop's acpi kicks in. Think about that...
- mdcollier, on 11/23/2008, -0/+0Nicely done.
- HYeahMFr, on 11/25/2008, -0/+0boot? are people still doing that? I would like to see a piece of software on ubuntu that will glorify uptime instead.
- antdude, on 11/23/2008, -1/+1Crash?
- dougm68, on 11/23/2008, -9/+1Ubuntu, the Windows equivalent of Linux. (minus the ability to play awsome games)
- digi691, on 11/23/2008, -14/+6Don't see the point...
09:18:42 up 70 days, 18:14, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01 - stockblogger, on 11/23/2008, -11/+3Go F**k yourself, teen.
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