Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:05:57 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Switching Kernels without Rebooting? |
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Kai Henningsen wrote:
> What I'd *really* like (but don't see how to get there) would be a "save > system state, shutdown, change kernel and/or hardware, reboot, restore > state" system (where state is like "I'm logged in on this console, in this > current directory, and under X I have Netscape running and this page > displayed" but I don't care about the exact state of Squid or even if my > ISDN line is dialled in, because those "fix themselves").
Consider os/2 then. All workplace-shell aware programs is supposed to save state in this way. And yes - they do start up in the same state after reboot if you want to. Editors come up on the page you left, filesystem folders comes up, and so on.
> and then every user-visible non-transient program > needs to implement it - and I don't see *that* happen in the next ten > years.
Consider a patch for konqueror or a few other webpage/fs-view programs and you'll go a long way - all in userspace.
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