FESCo is evaluating the new proposal: Fedora 38 is expected to reduce shutdown time from 2 minutes to 15 seconds

CTOnews.com, December 24, FESCo is evaluating a new proposal to significantly optimize the shutdown and restart time of Fedora distributions. The current Fedora Linux distribution takes up to 2 minutes to shut down and restart, but the new proposal hopes to reduce the time to 15 seconds.

Red Hat engineers and Fedora Workstation Workstation Group believe that reducing the 2-minute shutdown window to 15 seconds is enough to meet the maximum time the service needs to be shut down. For running services (such as some servers) that may take more time to shut down correctly and cleanly, shutdown time is still configurable.

CTOnews.com learned that Red Hat is now pushing ahead with changes to Fedora, awaiting approval from the Fedora Engineering and steering Committee (FESCo). It is written in the proposal:

The main benefit of the change is to alleviate a very annoying and embarrassing mistake: our users should not sit around waiting for their machines to shut down. This proposal encourages the correct use of the built-in shutdown API.