People have been talking about speeding up boot times. Here is an alternative strategy to make your desktop/laptop quickly usable whenever you need it.
Do not *ever* shutdown unless you are upgrading the kernel or grub. With suspend-to-disk[*] working on most systems around, there is no reason to ever shutdown. Even library upgrades can be done by "kill -HUP"ping or "restart"ing some daemons/processes. Replace your shutdown command with a hibernate/s2disk/tuxonice. You can power-down your system after such a procedure. In my experience hibernate and resume times for a typical desktop are lower than bootup times. As long as you do not access your hibernated disk areas, you can even use a different O/S in the intervening period. You can also build a tremendous "uptime" record in spite of Chennai's power cuts. Kapil. [*] Not to be confused with suspend-to-ram which is mostly only for laptops and even there is perhaps invoked only after some superstitious invocations. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
