Not to mention the added advantage of saving all your application state as well. You come back to the same firefox tabs, etc. Makes it easier to pick up your workflow where you left off.
+1 for hibernating. Raja On 27/01/2009, Kapil Hari Paranjape <ka...@imsc.res.in> wrote: > People have been talking about speeding up boot times. > > Here is an alternative strategy to make your desktop/laptop quickly > usable whenever you need it. > > Do not *ever* shutdown unless you are upgrading the kernel or grub. > > With suspend-to-disk[*] working on most systems around, there is no > reason to ever shutdown. Even library upgrades can be done by > "kill -HUP"ping or "restart"ing some daemons/processes. > > Replace your shutdown command with a hibernate/s2disk/tuxonice. You > can power-down your system after such a procedure. > > In my experience hibernate and resume times for a typical desktop are > lower than bootup times. > > As long as you do not access your hibernated disk areas, you can even > use a different O/S in the intervening period. > > You can also build a tremendous "uptime" record in spite of Chennai's > power cuts. > > Kapil. > [*] Not to be confused with suspend-to-ram which is mostly only for > laptops and even there is perhaps invoked only after some > superstitious invocations. > -- > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with > "unsubscribe <password> <address>" > in the subject or body of the message. > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
