You all know how an OS is starting, right? Usually one push the start button, read the POST output from the screen then booootttt - it has started! Well, the idea is that after the POST has successfully completed it…
sweets from the bootchart2
Starting with April 2012 a new version of the old bootchart have appeared in Gentoo's package repository. It is named bootchart2. You can read the bootchart2's README file to understand why do we have a new bootchart(2) and what are…
Speed-up system by SquashFs
It has been a while since I installed Gentoo. I always searched for new ways to improve the speed my system boot and run. After goggling little bit on net I found something about SquashFs and how to use it…
Gentoo before and after SSD
I have decide to give a try to SSD technology, even if it's not that cheap nowadays. So, I have bought a Corsair Force 3 SSD 90GB (which supports SATA III too) and replaced the old Toshiba 160GB 5400 rpm…
Gentoo speed up boot with parallel init
To speed up the system init at boot-time, just edit your/etc/conf.d/rc and set the RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP variable to yes: RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes" Also speed up boot with parallel init it's just a damn line!