Presto ‘instant-on’ operating system enters beta

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Rebel-CD32 wrote:
I guess by their rulings, AmigaOS would also be an "Instant-On" OS. I wonder how many of them are "Instant-OFF" like AmigaOS though, or if they still require a stupid shutdown.

I'm getting a little annoyed with all this, shutdown moaning! if you want to turn off your computer you are welcome to do so. Just don't complain when you lose data. I prefer to select Shutdown, and let the computer put itself into a safe state.

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Tension wrote:

dammy wrote:

Keep crying man, shutdown is for losers.

I keep seeing people say that and it makes me laugh.  I remember all too well of instant shut down of my Amiga only to be greeted with disk errors that even Disk Salvage couldn't repair.  Wipe and reinstall, oh that was so much fun for the joy of instant off, not.

I'm far older now, I'll take my shutdown sequence with little fear of disk corruption and like it.  

Dammy

All you need to do is turn it off when the HDD light isn`t flashing and you`ll be sweet as a goose.

Shutdown makes me lose.  :angry:

Sure... unless you use a modern file system... have you never heard of things like caches and deferred writes, etc...? You have no idea what the computer is actually doing with your data, and if you need high performance and advanced file system features, then a little flashy LED tells you nothing.

All modern File system are journled, so just switching off shouldn't nuke the File system (like it so easily could in AmigaOS), but you can still loose data... you have been warned!