__/ [ [H]omer ] on Thursday 12 April 2007 05:45 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Thursday 12 April 2007 02:30 \__
>>
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
>>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>>>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:06:35 +0100
>>>> <1701060.DDXoBGKyHi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>> Vista: Whatever happened to fast boot?
>>>> (The Amiga does OK here, though the startup script takes a few
>>>> seconds to do its thing.)
>>> One can work wonders with the ColdCapture vector and RAD: device.
>>
>> There's a Debian that boots in under 2 seconds.
>
> Sadly however, that's only the serial console (1.69 seconds). It takes a
> sleep-inducing 2.41 seconds to boot (from cold) into X (which is barely
> enough time to take a *sip* of coffee, let alone go and *make* one):
>
> http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8933335475.html
Yes, that must be the one I had in mind (haven't followed the link).
> I guess us Penguinistas are doomed to *never* drink coffee :)
Maybe I should install SETI@home and get some excuses. I'll admit that I can
take quite a few sips of coffee while Firefox starts up. It's totally
bloated with dozens of extensions, which makes it more of a toolkit/Swiss
army knife than a Web browser.
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