2011-07-09, 02:01
Superorb Wrote:^^ Or just sleep the HTPC, then it's faster than Open Elec by a long shot. My XBMC Live box comes back from sleep in around 3 seconds, and this is on a 15+ year old machine.
So you are saying that return from sleep for linux is faster that return from sleep for linux? Since live and openelec are both linux, I am not sure of your point, resume from sleep would be fairly fast on most platforms. Resume from sleep only takes a couple of seconds on openelec too, and I would guess it would be about the same for windows, it is resume from sleep not booting, as the OP was asking.
openelec is just a different distribution of linux (OE linux) designed for running xbmc, while live is Ubuntu cut down. There are pros and cons of each version, for example openelec boots fast and does not require much if any configuration outside of xbmc, but Live is more flexible you can customize other apps out side of xbmc. They are just a different version of mostly the same thing with different pros and cons.