[Cialug] Dell Latitude On

[David Champion]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:31 PM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
>   
>> This looks pretty cool... a laptop with an integrated TI-OMAP processor &
>> "instant on" linux based (MontaVista) OS.
>>
>> http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2560585344.html
>>
>>     
>
> I can tell you that boot time is a topic of major discussion currently
> among the engineers and developers at Canonical. Expect to see things
> improve at least for Ubuntu and probably for all the distros that use
> upstart.
>
> But personally, I never shut my computer down. Even when I take my
> computer with me I usually just close the lid to suspend it. I don't
> know that I'd benefit so much from a fast boot time.
>
>   
I've heard that some of the Mandriva engineers have been working hard on 
this too. Here's some info on it:

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/Boot_Time_Optimisation

I think there was something more recent on this too, I'll see if I can 
find it this weekend...

-dc

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