Boot-time improvements

[Morten Kjeldgaard]

On 09/09/2008, at 20.31, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:

> Some systems have been really successful at making it *appear* as if  
> the
> system starts up faster. In my opinion, where the system can't be made
> to boot faster, it should be made to appear so.

Is booting really relevant these days?  Not for me. At work, the  
servers and desktops run weeks and months without a reboot. My  
personal laptop, an old Apple Powerbook, boots perhaps once a month.  
It just sleeps when I close it and wake up right away when I open it.

Cheers,
Morten