Re: Rapid re-boot (Windows or Linux)



larwe wrote:

On a generic PC, if you don't mind spending a lot of hours stripping
[not something generally encouraged in an engineering department...]
just start with a friendly distro and run the friendly installer which
will dump 4GB of friendly unwanted stuff on your drive. But it will be
friendly.


No, I was referring to application and driver installation... particularly drivers. Why do they need to be specific to distributions?


No, it's Suspend to Disk. <http://www.suspend2.net/>


Suspend SAYS it
.



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