On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 19:10 -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > On 09/15/2011 05:27 PM, Adam Williamson 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. > > Or bulletproof session management.
True. As far as GNOME goes, though, whenever you suggest 'bulletproof session management', they say 'that's what suspend is for'... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
