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On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:38:53 +0100 Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:22:51 +0100 > Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I really do hope that they can introduce some of this into the > > > Desktop distros, I'd love it if my notebook could boot so quickly, > > > even 30 seconds would be nice. > > > > > I've just done a clean install of Debian Lenny on a spare partition > > on my laptop and I was very please with how quickly it gets from a > > Grub2 menu to a GUI login. > > > > Maybe Ubuntu was this fast when I first installed it, but these > > days my ageing 8.04.2 system is almost as slow as Windows (booting > > wise)! > > Sounds like you installed too many servers that need to be started > each reboot. > > Seriously though, why is everyone still rebooting? > > neil@holly:~$ w > 11:36:59 up 187 days, 16:10, 7 users, load average: 0.12, 0.47, > 0.70 > > Laptops should suspend/hibernate, not shutdown. My Aspire1 comes out > of hibernation in about 8 seconds - and that's into the previous > session, not the login box. I would love to hibernate - I think it's a great tool. My wireless card seems to not function at all with the standard Ath5k module(s), so I end up having to compile my own from the Atheros source. Unfortunately I have found that whenever I suspend to RAM or to disk, upon resuming everything got ***s up, I get a full on kernel freeze and I end up having to do a forced powerdown. So I'll stick to rebooting for the time being. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html