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5-second Linux boot challenge
CrunchGear —
... The dream of a short — and I mean really short — boot cycle is getting closer to reality. As it stands, though, even these experienced IT guys had to chop quite a lot off from already lean systems in order to hit their goal of CPU and drives idle after only 5 seconds. And on an Eee PC, no less. ...
Five second boot mod for ASUS Eee PC
SlashGear —
... Netbooks would be a whole lot more believable as companion devices if they switched on as fast as, say, a smartphone or PDA. However the combination of Intel’s Atom and generally wheezing specs tend to make starting-up - or resuming from standby - measure more around the one minute mark than anything less. Two Intel engineers might be looking to change all that, though; at a recent Linux conference, they demonstrated an ASUS Eee PC that could boot to a Fedora desktop in just five seconds. ...
Eeerritations
The Tao of Mac —
... 4 I miss the near-instant startup and resume times. Yes, there are people going on about 5 second boot times, but they are meaningless if they’re not already part of the mainstream user experience. ...
Eee PC modded by Intel engineers to boot in five seconds
Engadget —
Filed under: LaptopsSure, we've seen projects like SplashTop boot a stripped Linux build quickly, but Intel engineers at the recent Linux Plumbers Conference took things a little father last Thursday, starting up modified versions of Fedora and Intel's own Moblin Linux on an SSD-equipped Eee PC in just five seconds. That's all the way to an idle CPU and disk, not cheating and starting a window manager while background services thrash in the background, mind you -- and it's fast enough that the splash screen was removed from both distros. The ...
Five-second boot time demonstrated, sent to Moblin project
jkOnTheRun —
... I might be in the minority when I say that mobile device boot time doesn't matter, but I can't help to notice this project. A few weeks ago, two Linux developers demonstrated a five-second boot time on an Asus Eee PC with Solid State Disk. The entire approach wasn't to make a device boot faster, but to break the five second barrier. ...
Intel mods Fedora-based Asus Eee PC to Boot in 5 seconds
D' Technology Weblog —
... A couple of Intel Engineers at a recent Linux conference did some hacking and were showing of a Asus Eee PC that cold boots into a Fedora desktop in five seconds. Turns out they knocked out a couple of services that they felt were redundant and created a patch that allows read-ahead operations. That last move allows things to happen concurrently and not sequentially. ...
Linux Eee PC Boots in Five Seconds
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... Fedora starts "sendmail", a process which adds two seconds to the boot time and is only needed if you are running your own mail server. On a laptop, even for nerdy power users, this is unlikely. And while two seconds doesn't sound much, if you add a few of these together you end up with a lot of wasted time.
We don't know which is more surprising -- that a full startup can be trimmed to just five seconds, or that today's computers take so long in the first place.
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds [LPC via Liliputing]
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Asus Eee PC arrancó en sólo 5 segundos con Fedora
Gizmologia —
... Las pruebas salieron a la perfección y todo lo que hicieron fue enviado a la gente que trabaja en el sistema Fedora y Moblin. Todos los detalles (bastante largo y realmente técnico) en la web de LWN. ...
