[plug] Distro Day !!!

[Richard Meyer]

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                      Derek Fountain                                                                                                
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>> 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)).

Ok, one of mine works on SETI at home while I snooze - the other usually
snoozes while I do. ;)

I wasn't saying that it shouldn't be done, I was just querying the
usefulness of the test. It's easy enough to do and, as Cameron said, it'd
be a comparison point to XP.

>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.

Again I doubt the usefulness (but you can persuade me). I doubt that any
dyed-in-the-wool XYZ-distro user will change distros to shave 2 minutes off
boot time. (S)/he might, however, take the effort to fiddle the services at
bootup to minimise the time.

Again just my $0.02.

RichardM