Startup Time (Was: Re: What do you like best about Ubuntu?)

[Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN]

brian,

	you got it all wrong.....i'm not sure you  saw the entire thrust of
the
	statement. itstated that if one had worked on one of platforms i am
familiar
	with THEN the thread  would have been comical in comparison..but
your reference
	to a winbloze platform as referring to mainframes meansyou are not
the age demographic 
	to grok to joke.

	take it east....there's nothing new under the sun

	just how much 'joe public' can spend to do it.

	computers were invented at night but not last night.

	dude, relax, i think U are personalizing it a bit much.
	the folks who got the joke rsvp'd as much.

	okay scoot...git to class before you are late again and no stopping
for cappucinocafe latte w/no cream just milk.

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Brian Puccio
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 1:58 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: RE: Startup Time (Was: Re: What do you like best about Ubuntu?)


(This is not a personal attack, please don't take it as such)

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 11:22 -0700, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
wrote:
> who cares how many seconds it takes?
> this just shows how far we've come as IT pros,
> that we nitpick over a few cycles here or there.

Who cares if totem can't play WMV?  It can play MPEG!

Who cares if RB can't play MP3s?  It can play FLAC!

Who cares if OOo can't open a Word doc?  It does SXW!

Who cares if Firefox refuses to display any web pages that don't
validate according to the doctype?  You get MathML and SVG and a more
secure browser!

Etc etc.

If some people like a 30 second boot time and get it with windows and
want the same out of an operating system that many geeks tout as
"better" than it's not entirely unreasonable for them to expect linux to
do the same, is it?  A lot of people think "if I can do it on windows,
why shouldn't I be able to do it on linux".

Case in point, Evolution.  It talks to MS Exchange.  I'm sure a linux
user would rather they not have to connect to Exchange ever, however, if
they have to, it's nice to know the OSS community (or Novell, or
whomever, I'm not sure as I don't use that part) has made it possible to
do so.  The more OSS and linux can do in general, the better.  Even if
you personally don't see a need for the feature, that doesn't mean
someone else doesn't.  Especially if the "other folks" provide such a
feature in their software already.

Personally, I'd be plenty happy once suspend to RAM works on my laptop,
maybe right now user error is preventing me from doing so, or maybe it's
because I have a thinkpad (IBM was mentioned before).

Anyhow, my point is, to some people, the 30 second vs 60 second or
whatever it is, really DOES matter.  It might not to you, but for
whatever reason, they want their hardware to do that.

Me?  It would be nice.  It's a pain to have 15 minutes between work and
class and spend more of that time than I'd like watching text fly by as
it boots, however, since I lack the intelligence to make it faster
myself, I make do.  It's not something that will prevent me from running
Ubuntu (I've converted 2 friends, one from Fedora, on from Debian),
however, I don't find it (a faster boot time) to be an unreasonable want
or desire.

To each their own!  Cheers!


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