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On 12:48 Fri 27 Mar , Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Andrey Kislyuk <weaver@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I think the current fast boot focus on the various distros is horribly |
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> > misplaced. I couldn't care less whether my machines boot in 30 seconds |
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> > or 2 minutes. What I _really_ care about is that when I press the |
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> > button on my laptop, it wakes up from sleep in 2 seconds or less. |
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> > Linux is pretty bad at this. It's generally much worse than Windows, |
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> > which is in turn much worse than OS X. |
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> > So, if you really wish to make a difference in an area that others |
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> > haven't dealt with as much, try improving wake from sleep or hibernate |
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> > performance. |
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> Different strokes for different folks, right? I never put my laptop to |
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> sleep so getting a fast boot time is important to me. |
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> What are some of your ideas for improving wake from sleep times? It |
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> would help those that have no idea where to even start on that topic |
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> as it is not as intuitive as fast boot times. |
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The EeePC folks spent a lot of time on this. That's a good place to |
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start your research. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Admin, Summer of Code |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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