Speeding up Arch Linux
Currently I’m using Arch Linux on my desktop-machine at work. As I’m still at the evaluation phase i read trough some forums, wikis and blogs about Arch Linux.
One very interesting article I found was this one: http://www.cywhale.de/arch-linux-optimieren-booten-in-16-sekunden/
It describes how the booting time can be speeded up with some nice tricks. I did not all steps described there, but only the few changes i made saved me 19 seconds and my arch-machine now boots to the KDE logon-screen in 13 seconds.
Before the optimization:
After:
Why the f*** did you try ArchLinux??? Do you have too much time to waste now at your not so new job
…because it’s damn f*cking cool.
I’m still using it and it replaced my Ubuntu at work.
If I’d really have much time I would create my own LFS distro -
Thorstix or something like that
OK, in that case: what’re the key features making it so cool?? Never tried it out, but maybe I should.
Thorstix would be great
If you ever start it drop me a line, I’d volunteer… 
- fast (optimized for i686 and x86_64)
- nice packet-manager (similar to Debian apt-get)
- very up2date packages
- rolling release-cycle
- no configtools and stuff – everything can be done (and must be done) by yourself
Imho nothing to install on a server, but I’m quite happy with Arch on my desktop(s)