Great! Linux always outperformed others.

>To me this just seems like a logical extension of the hibernate function that has been in windows for years.

To me you just don't know what is in above article... Hibernate function was in Linux for years too... It looks that closed source closes brains of its users...

scyphe: Sleep? As in "hibernation" they are talking about? 5-6 seconds for 4GB? Really? That would be about 1GBps transfer rate from your disk or SSD. I kinda have trouble believing it (especially on a notebook). The other option (standby) is a different thing from what they are talking about. You can't do a poweroff for this. That 2.97 is from power-off state.

Walking around with big, heavy, expensive, shock-sensitive bricks, which are nowhere near as powerful as serious desktop, nor have sufficient screen size and resolution, is a matter of preference, but for example I prefer small netbook for ultimate portability and battery life, and desktop for serious work. So do many, many other people. Such an arrangement is more effective than having a single notebook for almost the same amount of money.

Say "Lineo ARM netbook" boots in less than three seconds. The "linux" part seems entirely incidental to this story, although I guess the Inquirer has to explain to some what rebooting "into a clean startup environment" means. No version of Windows has this. "A logical extension of the hibernate function???" Are these guys getting paid to come up with this crap? Do they think M$ fandom is any less disgusting than linux fanboyism? Dumb responses to a dumb story.

Dell Inspiron use Windows XP with Cryberlink to fast boot. They use hybernate.

Since when has "rapid resume" or hibernation or wake up from sleep be the same as booting?

Most of the posters above seem to know f-all about anything.

Any body who has waited for a windows box to come out of hibernation on a machine with 3gigs of ram knows it takes longer than a cold boot.


...Is that nobody has brought "rapid resume" in the MS fashion to Linux -- seems there really hasn't been enough interest on the desktop to fund a project.

You can take a full hibernation image, and the kernel itself tends to live in an initramfs that does a good job of making the initial boot one big serial read from disk, but I have yet to see a distro offering to take an image up to gdm or, on a "single-user" system, to the initial desktop login.

You'd think that'd have some serious advantages for desktop/laptop usage. Perhaps we'll see more of it when SSDs are more common and people can see what bottlenecks still exist even with the miracle disks. (Note some of the optimization work already done on GNOME and KDE startup, where big speedups were found by not letting programs block. Also contrast the old days of Windows, where a booting system could hang for minutes waiting for DHCP.)

I just love the level of bias on these sites... 

To me this just seems like a logical extension of the hibernate function that has been in windows for years.

Dare to dream. :-/

Seriously, you guys are reminding me of Fred Phelps, that crazy nutty pastor of some sect in Kansas that hates the world, fags, Swedes etc.. You use the same kind of circular arguments, compare apples to pears and sometimes just invent stuff for the sake of dropping turds on Microsoft. 

"Lineo's innovation is that its hibernation driver writes a snapshot of RAM into flash memory instead of to a hard disk."

It doesn't take long for my PC to wake up from Sleep. It does take longer than 2.97 seconds, perhaps 5-6 seconds, but then I have 4GB RAM in my PC which explains that. Oh, forgot, I'm not running a gimped OS specifically tailored for flashdrive-to-RAM usage on specially built hardware. ^^