Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Tue Dec 16 21:47:57 UTC 2008


Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> (b) making sleep/hibernate reliable is what laptop users
>>> need instead of booting all the time anyway because it is much faster if
>>> you can simply close the lid and open it later with all your apps
>>> working as you left them.
>>
>> This is actually the strongest argument against spending a lot of
>> resources on
>> going sub 20 seconds.  If Vista-style suspend-to-both works reliably,
>> there is
>> no reason to turn a machine off at all.
>>
> 
> suspend uses LITTLE power but not none
> hiberate uses no power but only happens when you've drained power already
> 
> so a good reason to power off is simply to save power

Or hibernate?

> -sv
> 




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