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

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 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.

Hardly "critical".  I don't use it.  Obviously, mileage may vary :-)
> 
>> 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.

LOL.  That's why I said "implication".  Everything writes "a lot", but to
single out Linux implies it does so more than other options.  I'm fairly
sure there's nothing special about Linux - except that "atime" is the
default for many distros - but there may be specific filesystems that will
write more, or less.  Obviously as noted in another branch of this thread,
journalling is an issue.
-- 
derek