Freespire 2.0 Alpha2 (1.1.73) is now available for download. “Merged Upstart boot scripts, improved boot time noticed; updated ATI Drivers to current version; enhanced Nvidia support; added knetworkmanager; and much more.”
Freespire 2.0 Alpha2 (1.1.73) is now available for download. “Merged Upstart boot scripts, improved boot time noticed; updated ATI Drivers to current version; enhanced Nvidia support; added knetworkmanager; and much more.”
This is actually somewhat big news that freespire is adopting Ubuntu’s upstart:
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
If Canonical keeps up the great work and continues improving upstart, we might have a true SysV init replacement. It would be interesting to see if Fedora is considering using upstart also.
Cool! I wasn’t going to download the alphas, but now I think I am upon that news. One major turnoff for me in using Linspire/Freespire (and Xandros and Suse and others) was the loooong boot time compared to Windows, Solaris and smaller distros like Zen. Ubuntu 6.10 was very refreshing in this regard for a mainstream distro.
I hate to add a comment to this attention lacking thread…but…
My boot time is still like 1:46 seconds, it is better but not amazing IMO.
Goodbye and good riddance, SysV init!!
openLinspire doesn’t appear to be generating a great deal of community interest, despite being listed on distrowatch and articled here, it has generated a grand total of three comments in the 24+ hours since the article was posted.
I can’t wait to play with this one.
I am glad to see them finally start to do things a bit more “normal” lets hope it continues.