Keep It Simple Stupid
Today over beers with some of the Novell hackers I wrote a new session manager for GNOME. It goes like this:
#!/bin/sh eval `ssh-agent` gnome-settings-daemon & gnome-panel & nautilus -n & beagled --bg & gnome-screensaver & exec metacity
Login time on my machine, as measured with a stopwatch, has been reduced from 10 seconds to 3 seconds (warm buffer cache in both cases), and my computer now has more free memory.
The panel draws itself in one second, and two of those seconds are just waiting for Nautilus to draw the desktop. With preloading during boot and a fix for the slow Nautilus desktop rendering, I think it’s probably possible to have a 1-2 second login on most hardware.
This company has After School Special written all over it
Two weeks ago, a made-for-TV movie about Miguel aired on prime-time Mexican television. It featured actors playing Miguel and his cohorts, including someone playing me. Apparently we all wear suits and I speak Spanish with a British accent.
In one scene “I” dramatically proclaim, “You realize this means selling the company to Novell!”
Miguel is embarrassed by the whole thing and is refusing to cooperate with my efforts to secure a copy of the film and host a viewing here in Boston. Therefore, I am reaching out to the readership to see if anyone has a recording they could make available for this good cause.
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