Intel Linux developers boot Linux in 5 seconds on an SSD Eee PC netbook

Here’s some news that I missed from a few weeks back. Two Linux developers from Intel demonstrated at the Linux Plumbers Conference, an Eee PC booting a Linux OS in five seconds. The Eee PC netbook (which had a solid state drive) booted the OS faster than the time it took for the conference projector to sync up with the system! According to this article at LWN.net, “done booting” meant “CPU and disk idle” – which is pretty darn impressive! The developers took a look at all the different operations that were performed during boot time and either optimized them or removed them completely to yield these incredible boot times. You can read more about how this task was done over at LWN.net. Now if someone would only release a distribution for a netbook that actually booted the system this quickly!!

[Check it out via SlashGear, Ubergizmo]

Written by flung

October 7th, 2008 at 3:28 am

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which is pretty darn impressive! The developers took a look at all the different operations that were performed during boot time and either optimized them or removed them completely to yield these incredible boot times. You can read more about how this task was done over at LWN.net. Now if someone would only release a distribution for a netbook that actually booted the system this quickly!!

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