On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Frank Schmitt <i...@frank-schmitt.net> wrote:
> Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> writes: > > > Bill McGonigle wrote: > >> The parenthetical is the actual reason people don't like to reboot and > >> may ignore security updates. Boot times are trivial in comparison to > >> restoring one's application state, for anything beyond the most trivial > >> of use cases. > > > > The average home user turns his/her computer off when going to sleep, so > > he/she reboots at least once per day. Heck, even I do that. Leaving my > > computer running when I sleep wastes power and makes me sleep badly > > (probably because of the noise from the fans, though I don't exclude > > electromagnetic waves possibly having to do with it as well (but no, I > > don't use tinfoil hats or similar nonsense ;-) )). Home users with record > > uptimes are a small minority, even if there are probably many of those on > > this list. > > I think most people hibernate or suspend when they go to sleep. > > -- > Have you ever considered how much text can fit in eighty columns? Given > that a > signature typically contains up to four lines of text, this space allows > you to > attach a tremendous amount of valuable information to your messages. Seize > the > opportunity and don't waste your signature on bullshit that nobody cares > about. > Since hibernate has been broken for the last three releases of Fedora, I do suspend to RAM. I wish hibernate worked though. Either way, I don't like rebooting and I think something like this would be great. Most the people I do know, even non-techies, generally either suspend or hibernate the machine since they don't want to wait for the system to start up.
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