Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Dec 16 21:41:39 UTC 2008



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

-sv




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