[plug] Distro Day !!!

[Derek Fountain]

> I doubt that it's very useful - one of Linux's boasts is that you hardly
> ever have to reboot. If you reboot once a week, it hardly matters whether
> it takes 1 minute or 5 minutes. Just my $0.02.

That argument only really applies to servers and those of us who leave our 
desktops running 24x7 (uptime tells me mine's been running 73 days, which is 
also a convenient way of finding out when my area last had a powercut :o)).

For people who only use their desktops on occasion, or who use laptops which 
don't suspend too nicely (like mine), boot time is quite important.

-- 
"...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE 
...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, 
they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003