On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Peter John Hartman <peterjohnhart...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 06:21:54PM +0000, David Tweed wrote: >> it. However, my experience is that linux is not particuarly snappy >> booting from a hibernate image, partly because there's so many >> programs that want to be paged back in and partly because it needs to >> still slowly start up any hardware it can find on the machine. > > booting from hibernate is perfectly fast nowadays.
Just tried an experiment using an ubuntu distribution that I HAVEN'T trimmed down on the target hardware. To boot to the standard desktop using dwm as wm took 50s. Without starting any other programs and immediately hibernating, a restart from hibernate image takes 37s to get to the password unlock screen.(I can get rid of the need for a password, but I don't imagine that particular program contributed much to the restart time). Many thanks for the suggestion about mincore Yoshi: I'd heard about Damn Small Linux, but not mincore which seems like a good option to experiment with. -- cheers, dave tweed__________________________ computer vision reasearcher: david.tw...@gmail.com "while having code so boring anyone can maintain it, use Python." -- attempted insult seen on slashdot
