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LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

Posted Sep 23, 2008 7:54 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds by anselm
Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

> Nowadays most of my applications do a reasonable job of coming up again
> where I left them before a shutdown, so it's not a big deal.

But they can take an awful long time to do so. Don't know if suspend/resume is faster, because I have never trusted it enough to find out. Perhaps a middle way would be best of all - suspending and resuming individual applications, perhaps even with the application's cooperation.


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LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

Posted Sep 23, 2008 8:23 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

Ahem, actually exactly what ebirdie said in a comment further up.

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