That is exactly what happened in my daughter's class. Scenario is: small child experiences a problem. Adult is supervising multiple children and answering questions, unable to spend 5 minutes focussing on one child's wedged XO. Rebooting deterministically recovers from problems (resets to a known state) without much adult time taken to initiate the reboot. So one child must twiddle thumbs during a long reboot.
Some of the builds have reboots that rival the reboot times of old mainframes. :-) On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:42 PM, John R.Hogerhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sameer Verma <sverma <at> sfsu.edu> writes: > > > > Yeah, its probably #1. Boot up times become moot if children simply rely > > on suspend and resume with topping up the battery whenever possible. Its > > the actual performance of the environment that really matters. > > > > I would say both are important in a classroom setting, though UI > responsiveness > is more important. > > Even with Ubuntu on my Thinkpad laptop I do have the occasional lockup or > need > for reboot. If a kid is working on a collaborative activity and on top of > the > time it takes to notice and react to the freeze/lockup you need to spend > another > minute or so rebooting, that time comes directly out of productive learning > time. And, in his frustration he may need help which could stop the whole > train > until the issue is dealt with. I think in classrooms full of 20-30 kids, > that > happening enough to notice is a significant probability. > > -- John. > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- "Always do right," said Mark Twain. "This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
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