Boot-time improvements

[Milos Mandaric]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 01:19 +0200, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 

Of course it matters. I am testing Ubuntu, searching for bugs and find
my self sometimes reseting it more then 30 times per day. Every second
matters, and not just for me. For many people.

Cheers,
Milos