Draft: Gutsy beta release announcement

[Vadim Peretokin]

This is great news for us laptop people for whom hibernate doesn't work
(which results in a lot of shutdown/bootup, since suspend isn't all that
power-saving).

On 9/30/07, Dougie Richardson <ddrichardson at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Matt
>
> > I'm surprised both that you feel boot time is one of the biggest
> > complaints
> > among users, and that you feel this has changed substantially in 7.10.
> > Can
> > you expand on those premises?
>
> Biggest complaint: it's often stated in comparison articles, I believe it
> was in the recent Mossberg article, although I could be wrong. It comes up
> quite frequently in the forums and there are numerous howtos concerning
> improving boot times on 7.04. Granted this may be more of a laptop issue,
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=62230
> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tag/feisty-slow-fix/
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/2485
>
> http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2007/04/yesterdays-update-slow-boot.html
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2114124,00.asp
> http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=531989
>
> Changed substantially: 7.10 is at least twice as fast as 7.04 is to
> install
> and brings up GDM on boot around a minute faster than Fiesty, on my laptop
> and desktop.
>
> Dougie Richardson
> dougie at lynxworks.eu
> http://blog.lynxworks.eu/
>
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