Reply With QuoteFake edit: for what it's worth, fast booting is the first thing I look for in any new motherboard or laptop I buy. If it takes 10'' to discover disk devices, I simply won't buy it.
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If you could reliably cold boot (with or without hibernation) in 3 seconds would you ever choose to sleep instead? Sleep is nothing but a workaround for slow boot times.Originally Posted by deanjo
The ultimate goal of the OS should be to get out of the way. Fast, unobtrusive booting is a large part of that goal.
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Fake edit: for what it's worth, fast booting is the first thing I look for in any new motherboard or laptop I buy. If it takes 10'' to discover disk devices, I simply won't buy it.
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most posters are not carrying about boot time , but if you boot quickly then softwares are running fasters .
i not easy yet with linux booting and mem used . with dos it was very interresting to have a lot of free mem in the 640 ko and use as much as possible upper mem for drivers .
with nt and linux looks the same , no optimization is possible
have a look at this old tool : umbpci
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/umbpci_e.html
http://www.mdgx.com/umb.htm
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edit time is too short : 1 minute so i add this
with nt and linux , it looks the same , no optimization is possible by editing files to maximize the memory usage according to the pc and cards, it has
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I was satisfied with the 4MB of ram my first PC came with, until I upgraded it to 16MB. I was satisfied with the SNES until I... nah, I'm still satisfied with the SNES
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At one time "instant on" picture was the rage too on TV's but you don't hear griping how slow the flat panels take before you get a full picture now days.I was satisfied with the 4MB of ram my first PC came with, until I upgraded it to 16MB. I was satisfied with the SNES until I... nah, I'm still satisfied with the SNES
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Yes I would, here is why. The people that are going to be putting their system in a up/down state the most are laptop users. Now if I have to boot everytime I want to close that lid it also means reopening the applications I had open, remembering what file I had open, getting everything just aligned right again, etc. With a proper working sleep I can resume right where I left off. That is something a reboot doesn't do. In this day and age having to do a full boot should become a rarity not common practice.
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That's why he included hibernation. If that worked within a few seconds you indeed wouldn't need sleep.
Other than that you're right; opening applications and everything after a real boot is mega time consuming and annoying and a real productivity killer. To me it's a mystery why people would really want to reboot and are so obsessed with boot times.
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Michael, a suggestion for something Phoronix could create --
a diff tool for bootcharts.
No, I'm not going to stare at eight bootcharts until my eyes bleed trying to find the biggest changes. But that info laid out in +/- ms times for each section, omitting very small differences, would be handy.
Serious suggestion
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200€ is the price of windows ;']
10 000 computers running linux ? are you sure there are so many around the world ?
i joke but the more i read the forum , the more i find it too "geeky" .
if you know hl2 game [ that only runs with windows ] linux looks like the Black Mesa Mod http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-mesa
