On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 14:14 -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: > Many computers are booted very rarely, once a day or so, and then > sit idle for very long periods of time. This is very wasteful. The > reason people do this is because booting takes a long time compared to > starting the set of applications they use. > > If you could boot and start applications in say, 1/2 second, usage > patterns would be completely different. What you really want there, though, is efficient and reliable suspend, not full power cycle. This is what everyone does with cellphones and tablets. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
