On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:27:49 -0700 Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Yes, usually a user would want to preserve the state of their work across the periods of them they are not using the system, as opposed to a cold boot that clears everything. That is also what is normally wanted from overnight shutdowns of systems that run during the business day. -- Bernd Stramm bernd.stramm@xxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
