Ubuntu 9.10 Boot Performance - It Does Matter
Thu
02
Jul
2009
In his post, Ubuntu 9.10 Boot Performance, and Does it Matter? Christopher Tozzi makes a point that it doesn't really matter that the boot performance has improved since "none of us" shutdown the desktops/laptops, opting instead for suspend/hibernate.
It just seems quite seems like his world view is quite flawed in my opinion. When I was in Denver, and a power outage did not occur for the two years I was there, I did keep my Ubuntu powered Dell laptop up and running all the while.
But back in India, now in Chennai, the power outage is quite frequent. I do not want to keep my laptop hooked on all the time. I do want to shutdown completely and boot in when I want to use it.
I just hope that people who lead the development of Ubuntu as a distribution are not just filled with people with narrow views.
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Good point. It's
Good point. It's mind-boggling how the perception and interpretation of "reality" of so many people is bound by their optic nerve and not their imagination...
and there are problems with suspend
Although the things have improved and it happens less often than before, there are still issues with suspend (to RAM, to disk) on Linux laptops (and desktops probably, too).
On my laptop suspend works and the system wakes up correctly, but the sound does not work correctly and stutters after such an operation.
So whenever I need sound, a fast boot is still an argument for me.
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