IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Saturday, July 24, 2004 2:57 AM +0200 David Nielsen 
<dnielsen at breakmygentoo.net> wrote:

> As a desktop user, and considering I have to pay the power bill, I
> prefer to shut my computer down whenever I don't use it, why should I
> keep it up aside showing off the size of my member by having a
> proportionally huge uptime?
> For most users it serves no logical purpose to have an always on
> solution, and there's no reason why our boot time should be suboptimal.

A good point, but note that "not always on" does not necessarily mean 
"needs to boot". That's why hibernation was invented. There's no reason you 
couldn't hibernate a laptop, and have huge "up times" with the power 
removed. The question then becomes what kind of hibernation support is 
available under Linux.