Neat concept but the locking restrictions seem a GPL violation. In spirit at least?

[Luke -Jr]

On Tuesday 12 February 2008, David Nicol wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 7:14 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, David Nicol wrote:
> > > boot acceleration is a neglected science;  no reason why a box with a
> >
> > 3ghz
> >
> > > cpu takes any time at all to start up.
> >
> > Mostly I/O bound, isn't it? Hard drives haven't got much faster for
> > years.
>
> okay, but why doesn't, for instance gnome manager swap everything out
> instead
> of having to re-initialize itself when I reboot my etch? Because it would
> be more
> trouble than its worth, that's why.

Because you didn't tell it to. Linux has support for this.