[Cialug] Dell Latitude On

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>> I can tell you that boot time is a topic of major discussion currently
>> among the engineers and developers at Canonical. Expect to see things
>> improve at least for Ubuntu and probably for all the distros that use
>> upstart.
>
> See also: "Booting Linux in 5 Seconds"
> http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

To quote from a co-worker's trip report to "Linux Plumber's" conference:

>>>
We attended Arjan from Intel talk about 5 sec boot at the Linux Plumbers
Conference. Canonical and Fedora had a sprited talk with him. Keep in
mind they hacked the system up so bad that none of the distros in
attendance would take the changes wholesale. They used very expensive
Solid Sate Drives, hacked up X Windows and used XFCE rather than gnome.
Ripped out the init system. Its not maintainable without an army of
people to do the work. It just not real world.
<<<

There is a rumour that the hardware vendors are using their influence
to get the bios POST time down. The most interesting thing to me is
that the timings include the time for background process to complete,
so there's no cheating allowed. The system is "booted" when everything
has settled down and finished starting.

Please remember that none of my comments are official and even my
quote posted above should be considered as out of context.

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
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