From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 05:09:50 MST
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Hubert Mania wrote:
> Ever since I started using computers I wanted to have one that I can
> start and switch off like a CD player. Pleaze all you geeks, do
> something about it!
While I'm not aware of a mainstream system that does this (with the
exception of portable systems which can go to sleep, or save system state
to disk, which will take a while to restore), this can be done in the
following way:
1) use a stateless display that connects to a permanently running system
on a network (somewhere out of sight, in the cellar, on the Net in a
rack, etc). This is cheating a bit, but it would work.
2) use a solid state based system which saves GUI state, and shuts down
cleanly within seconds. I'm thinking of picking up a system like
http://openbrick.org/ to play with it, as I'm sick and tired of two
noisy machines in my living room running through 24/7/365.
It is definitely something what is needed by the customer, and will
probably come in the form of a ruggedized purely solid state tablet PC.
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