* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> BIOS boots to Linux in one second
>
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>| Firmware company General Software announced that it is selling customized,
>| quick-booting versions of its Linux-compatible BIOS firmware to the medical
>| device industry. The company says its "Embedded BIOS with StrongFrame
>| Technology" can boot to lilo (Linux loader) in less than a second.
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> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5429881813.html
>
> There are other such things, including SplashTop which takes just 5 seconds to
> boot.
Big deal. My Atari ST was faster.
Of course, it didn't have to:
enumerate a device directory
set up networking
set up NFS
start dbus
start samba
start ssh
start ntp
start rsync
start mail
start spamassassin
start ntp
...
--
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things
happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I
think religious principles are quite valid.
-- Bill Gates, PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
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