Linux boots in 2.97 seconds

[I-75]

Linux boots in 2.97 seconds
by Egan Orion
Nov 12, 2008

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/1...7-seconds.aspx



Software engineers at Japan's embedded Linux software vendor Lineo announced technology last week that can boot a low-power computer system within 2.97 seconds, the company claims.
Lineo calls its quick-start software system Warp 2, apparently either never having heard of IBM's ill-fated and abandoned OS/2 Warp operating system or not being particularly superstitious.

The company says Warp 2 consists of a bootloader, a customised Linux software stack, and a 'hibernation driver' similar to familiar suspend-to-disk software. Lineo's innovation is that its hibernation driver writes a snapshot of RAM into flash memory instead of to a hard disk.

[billgoldberg]

That might be fun for notebooks.


But does it really matter if it's 3 seconds or 50?

Not for me.

[zmjjmz]

The only time I ever reboot is when there's a crash or a kernel update.
So this doesn't make a difference to me.

[Half-Left]

If your swaping OS's it makes a big difference, you'd be lying if you said it doesn't make any difference to you.

[smoker]

why aren't coffee machine manufacturers in the loop here - looks like the computer will be waiting for me while i make a cup, rather than me making the coffee waiting for the computer!

[mssever]

Notice that this is resuming from hibernation in 2.97, not a cold boot. So it's a bit misleading.

[handy]

The following thread is related somewhat:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=980465

[mehaga]

I love fast boots, they're important to me. Still, I think this is going too far. I'd much rather have Ubuntu people work on ease of use, bringing more applications to linux etc than find "faster boot" listed as one of major improvements in last 3-4 versions of Ubuntu. Boot time got 'fixed' years ago, let's move on!

[ericesque]

If your swaping OS's it makes a big difference, you'd be lying if you said it doesn't make any difference to you.

Only if we can make windows boot in a few seconds as well... typically I only swap OSs if I want to quick jump in on a game. I don't mind waiting a minute once I'm done gaming to get back into Ubuntu.

[off-topic]...okay, WHY in a custom package of Firefox for Ubuntu does the spell checker always pick up 'Ubuntu' as being spelled incorrectly?!?![/off-topic]

[cardinals_fan]

The only time I ever reboot is when there's a crash or a kernel update.
So this doesn't make a difference to me.

Do you go to school/work for 6+ hours during the day? And do you sleep at least 6-8 hours per night? And do you usually leave for school/work shortly after waking up? If you answered yes to all these questions, you leave your computer on for 12+ hours of inactivity.

If your swaping OS's it makes a big difference, you'd be lying if you said it doesn't make any difference to you.

Well, they probably aren't swapping OSs very often, and aren't lying