Re: Adjustments to userland for a quieter startup (RC system)

On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM Sulev-Madis Silber <
freebsd-current-freebsd-org111@ketas.si.pri.ee> wrote:

> i'm thinking of what linux distros do. they are more common on laptops. i
> haven't heard them hiding all and nor do i hear massive complaints about
> "machine scribberish"?
>

systemd-journald captures all the logs and you use journalctl to access
them. dmesg does most of the relevant things on fbsd.


> also, when people, maybe not on fbsd but else where, complained that it
> boots over a minute, how can it be. who even boots machines that much. that
> was for servers. maybe laptops get booted nore often, esp. how the suspend
> doesn't often work and nevermind to disk, that's not even implemented. so
> people boot. also, is this recent or what. systems have booted for some
> time since forever. ok this is about time, not messages. maybe times indeed
> need blank screens with nice images
>

Linux systemd puts a UI up as quickly as possible while booting continues
in the background. I'm not sure how trustworthy that is, TBH.

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