--On Saturday, July 24, 2004 2:57 AM +0200 David Nielsen
<dnielsen(a)breakmygentoo.net> wrote:
As a desktop user, and considering I have to pay the power bill, I
prefer to shut my computer down whenever I don't use it, why should I
keep it up aside showing off the size of my member by having a
proportionally huge uptime?
For most users it serves no logical purpose to have an always on
solution, and there's no reason why our boot time should be suboptimal.
A good point, but note that "not always on" does not necessarily mean
"needs to boot". That's why hibernation was invented. There's no reason
you
couldn't hibernate a laptop, and have huge "up times" with the power
removed. The question then becomes what kind of hibernation support is
available under Linux.