Wed, 20 Sep 2006
Heart Breaking Prose
A gal I went to college with wrote an
anti-suicide
letter on her blog. It made
me cry. E, your feelings are not in vain.
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Boot Time As New Benchmark for Desktops
Since I have "switched" to OS X until
Ubuntu patches their kernel for some of
my laptop's hardware, I have noticed one thing above all in the performance
arena. OS X's boot time is un-fucking-believable. This is compared to Ubuntu
6's boot time on the same laptop.
Booting has been a
big topic of
discussion lately. It seems that the "overall
desktop experience" now depends on it. OS X must be doing some kind of
on-demand init thing
because the system gets from the bootloader to a login screen in
literally 5 seconds.
My second favorite OS X boot feature is unattended suspend
to RAM. I have to remove the battery often since the serial number is under it.
I rarely turn the laptop off so I'm pulling it's last bit of power when I do
this. Somehow someway, OS X knows to take that last bit of power, throw the
contents of RAM onto the disk and power down. The laptop needs a cold boot but
when it gets to the OS X loader, it will notice this little collection of RAM
on the disk and throw it back into RAM. The results are the screen and programs
are exactly where I left off.
Pimping OS X sucks. Unfortunatley, these kinds of power management issues are a
constant problem with the Linux kernel on some kinds of hardware.
posted at: 17:18 | path:
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