Don't hibernate, crashing is faster.

[Callum Lerwick]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 17:29 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:19 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > Hibernate is the Wrong Thing.
> > 
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/191059/
> 
> Absolutely, if you want to shutdown, just crash the box.
> Shutdown should be <3s. All the nonsense Fedora does now
> with shutting down every daemon is just silly.
> 
> However, that has nothing to do with hibernate. This is because
> a major reason a person doesn't want to reboot is that the state
> of the desktops, apps, etc. is lost. And no crash-only software
> can solve that problem.

Read closer, that's exactly the problem it solves. Crash only software
restarts in exactly the same state as when it crashed. Like firefox,
only without the dialog...
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