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Linux's '09 Outlook: Everywhere, Even On Windows Machines
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| It sounded like a wild hook for a story, to put it mildly: In 2009, it is
| said, Linux will ship on more PCs than Windows. So I sat down with Jim Zemlin
| of the Linux Foundation to explain his reasoning behind such a statement. He
| did, and I learned about great many other forward-looking insights for Linux
| in '09, too.
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| "The New York Times recently did a piece on big-name companies like Dell and
| Hewlett-Packard all diving in the [Linux-powered] netbook space," he told
| me, "and on top of that there's QuickBoot, where you power on your machine
| and a couple of seconds later, you've booted into a Linux-powered
| mini-environment with network access, e-mail, and so on. The thing is, when
| people use this, Microsoft loses that much more customer experience. You're
| not booting into Windows, so Windows becomes further from the consumer in
| terms of what they're using day to day. And as you get less dependent on
| Windows, other things rise to the fore. If every machine that ships, ships
| with this, that’s that much less of Windows people are using in some form.
| You can see then how Linux outships Windows in this sense."
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12/linuxs_09_outlo.html
Recent:
Is This the Cloud OS You Wanted?
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| Take for example Dell's forthcoming Latitude ON: a Linux-based
| system-on-a-chip that consists of a low-power ARM processor and flash memory
| running independently of the laptop's CPU and hard disk drive. With it,
| you'll be able to launch a Firefox-based browser, web mail, calendar, and
| contacts application as well as a Microsoft Office and PDF viewer. Cloud OS
| is merely an alternative to that software, albeit without the Microsoft
| Office/PDF support.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_this_the_cloud_os_you_wanted.php
Good OS Cloud: Linux as Quick Start for Web and Windows
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| Best known for its Wal-Mart Linux PC called gOS, Good OS is presenting a new
| Cloud browser operating system at the Netbook World Summit in Paris. The
| compressed Linux kernel boots up as an integrated browser.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/good_os_cloud_linux_as_quick_start_for_web_and_windows
Good OS Announces Cloud - A New Operating System for 2009
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| Good OS, most known for its gOS Linux that debuted in Wal-Mart computers,
| today announced "Cloud," a new operating system that boots into a browser
| with Google, Yahoo! and Live in seconds, and optionally boots into Windows.
| Good OS will preview Cloud on a GIGABYTE Touch-Screen Netbook at the Netbook
| World Summit and online at http://www.thinkgos.com.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Good-OS-Announces-Cloud-A/story.aspx?guid=%7B8FE13B1A-CD0C-4E16-AE90-977D7FD8F8EC%7D
http://tinyurl.com/5wjzxt
The Linux Boot Sequence, Visualised
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| Most of us don't appreciate all the processes involved with our OS's boot
| sequence; we're far more interested in watching that status bar fill. In this
| visualization of the Linux boot sequence, each function is a node, and each
| line connecting the nodes represents a call, direct branch, or indirect
| branch.
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http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/11/the_linux_boot_sequence_visualized-2.html
Booting Debian in 14 seconds
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| Many readers will have heard about Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok's work to
| boot an ASUS Eee 901 in 5 seconds. Inspired by this work, and because I have
| the same laptop, I decided to try to reproduce their results. So far I have
| not come very close to their 5 seconds, but I have made some significant
| improvements compared to the default boot time for Debian on that machine;
| this article describes what I've done.
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http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/620
Linux boots in 2.97 seconds
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| Japanese embedded Linux house Lineo has announced a quick-start technology
| that it claims can boot Linux in 2.97 seconds on a low-powered system. The
| technology appears similar to but much faster than Linux's
| existing "suspend-to-disk" capability.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5185504436.html?kc=rss
My Bootchart Record: 12 Seconds to Boot, 7 Seconds to X
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| I may have to write how I did this at some point. I use Archlinux x86_64,
| with a custom kernel from Zen. It's got most of the stuff I need built in,
| and all other crap is thrown out. I further have added concurrency in rc.conf
| using @ before all but a couple of my daemons, and am using ReiserFS, with
| noatime notail nodiratime. I have further speed things along by editing
| rc.sysinit, and removed hundreds of lines of unneeded crap as well. One trick
| I found was that it is actually faster to mount an NTFS partition I have via
| rc.local, rather than fstab. That said, I can't think of anything else to
| make this faster!
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http://www.mattparnell.com/projects/my-bootchart-record-12-seconds-to-boot-7-seconds-to-x.html
http://tinyurl.com/65eexv
Reboot like a racecar with kexec
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| Kexec was originally intended for use by kernel and system developers who had
| to reboot several times a day. Soon, system administrators for
| high-availability servers found use for it as well. As systems get more and
| more advanced, and boot times get longer, end users can now benefit from it.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/150202
Related:
Startup times
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| PCLinuxOS 2007 (on my home laptop, a middle-of-the-road machine): 40 seconds
| Mandriva 2008: 40 seconds
| Xubuntu 7.10: 45 seconds
| openSUSE 10.3 (clean install, OSS/KDE): about 45 seconds
| Fedora 8: about 50 seconds (a huge improvement over the last few versions :-)
| Windows Vista: 3 minutes 45 seconds
| ...What?
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http://distrogue.blogspot.com/2007/12/startup-times.html
Ubuntu vs. That Other OS
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| Both machines have the same exact specs, both have been used for the same
| time (to be fair I have tweaked the OS on the left quite a bit to optimize
| it). Ubuntu is already idle by the time the video ends; while the other PC
| takes 30 seconds more than what I’ve uploaded to idle the hard drive.
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http://blog.estebanglas.com.ar/2007/11/ubuntu-vs-that-other-os/
Quick booting SBC runs Debian Linux
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| Technologic Systems has announced a single-board computer (SBC) claimed to
| boot Linux 2.6 in under two seconds.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3219821348.html
Mach Boot: The live CD that supposedly boots in 10 seconds
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| Mach Boot won't replace Knoppix, and it won't replace Puppy, DSL or NimbleX
| either. But it's a tool all its own, one that could be very useful with a
| little more development time.
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http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/09/the_live_cd_that_supposedly_bo.html
Tiny WiFi-enabled Linux box boots in 1.1 seconds
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| Technologic continues to reduce the boot time, price, and size of
| its embedded boards and systems targeting remote sensing and other
| power-critical applications. Its new $100 ARM9-based TS-7400 board can
| boot Linux in 1.1 seconds, and is available as part of a tiny
| WiFi-enabled system.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6252722644.html
Flexible ARM9 SBC boots Linux in 1.69 seconds
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| Technologic Systems is offering a freely downloadable, Debian-based Linux
| OS image said to boot from an SD card in less than two seconds, on the
| company's ARM9-based SBC (single-board computer).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8933335475.html
Phoenix HyperSpace: Quick-Boot Your Laptop
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| Phoenix Technologies' new HyperSpace is an instant-on environment for
| laptops, letting users launch a browser or other apps with booting into the
| OS.
|
| Today, Phoenix Technologies introduced a firmware product called HyperSpace,
| which allows PCs to run a number of applications separate from the operating
| system. What that means is that if you use a PC equipped with HyperSpace, you
| will be able to quick-boot your notebook into a secure Linux environment,
| where you can use Web browsers like FireFox and pre-loaded Web-aware apps
| like Google Earth, Picasa, and the like.
|
| [...]
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| Also, since HyperSpace is a Linux-based platform, Windows viruses won't
| affect it.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2211507,00.asp
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