>
> On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 10:09:10PM +0200,
address@hidden wrote:
> > The only small problem is the system startup, which takes a long
time (3
> > minutes from grub to GDM user login). It is probably due to a
problem with
> > the system clock (I get somes warnings: ntpd clock
unsynchronized). I don't
> > know where the boot log is on guix system and I don't know if it
has to do
> > with GNU bug report logs - #22274.
>
> I have Guix on an X200 (basically the same as yours) and I can
confirm,
> it's slow.
>
> I don't think it's related to ntpd. I see the same warnings but the
> system displays the login prompt before they are resolved.
>
> Generally, the issue is that the Shepherd is not optimized to the
degree
> that systemd is, and that these old Thinkpads (sold in 2008) are
really
> slow by contemporary standards.
>
> One of the early selling points of systemd was that it reduced boot
> times from being measured in minutes, which used to be typical, to
> seconds. Now systemd is the standard, and minutes-long booting seems
> incredibly and unreasonably slow.
>
>
Guix System: Very long, scary boot time:
http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39089