[Cialug] Dell Latitude On

[David Champion]

David Champion wrote:
> 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
Here's more info on this:

http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/09/30/mandriva-developer-talks-about-linux-boot-optimization

-dc