Hmmm, so you, like me, see the value of a fast booting OS. The consensus of opinion by the intelligentsia here is that a fast boot is unnecessary, as you can juts leave your PC in standby indefinately, never ever turning it off. Despite this its odd how often someone comes along and thinks a fast boot is A Good Thing.
Standby is fine for desktops but when it comes to laptops, I'd much rather power down to save my battery. Coincidentally, using a laptop is precisely the time when fast boot time is desirable. When you only have a 15min coffee break, a 30sec boot time is 29sec too long.
I used to use Amithlon on my laptop all the time. Unfortunately I've got a newer laptop and Amithlon doesn't really work on it.
I sure wish Amithlon had never died. Personally I think Amiga Inc should have snatched up Amithlon and used it as a migratory path to AmigaOS 4.0 for x86 instead of going the PPC route. But that's just my opinion and I hope this thread doesn't degrade into some "PPC vs x86" flamewar just because I stated my opinion.
