IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[David Nielsen]

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.

- David *I'm not made of money* Nielsen

On fre, 2004-07-23 at 21:20 -0300, Ben Steeves wrote:
> What's the point of optimizing boot time?  Unlike a Windows box, a
> Linux box doesn't spend an appreciable amount of its overall on-time
> booting, because once it's booted, you generally don't need to reboot
> except for kernel patches.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Steeves
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