Smaller model laptops in combination with Kubuntu - request for advise?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/7/5 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
> No.  Is it necessary?

If the machine takes more than 5 seconds to boot up, then yes.

> I've never seen much value for something between Sleep
> and Hibernate.

Near-instant on. Not very important for a desktop, critical for a laptop.

>  It can't suspend to Disk, either, without a swap partition
> but if you need to be able hibernate, you can always create a swap
> partition that is _not_ normally used for swap.

Good point.

> I'm still perplexed about Nigel's implication that Linux causes more writes
> to disk than other OSes.  It just doesn't seem logical.

He said that Linux writes 'a lot'. He didn't compare Linux to other
OSes. I breathe 'a lot'. But I probably don't breathe any more than
the average KDE user.

Dotan Cohen

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