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Re:Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released by ludwigvan on Sunday May 05, 2013 @06:02AM (#5657987)
""Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?" "

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt

Re:Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released by mverwijs on Sunday May 05, 2013 @12:42PM (#5658907)
I don't know. I mean, the trend has been hand-held devices and laptops for the past decade or so. They don't get booted every day and will be less and less. All the while, devices are getting faster hardware, making the difference even less.

Too me, it still seems not worth breaking a working standard (SysV) over.