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- oldhick, on 11/11/2008, -2/+92I'm not sure why everyone is comparing this to Windows... This is embedded linux on specific hardware and it's fantastic.
You don't always have to compare every linux story to Windows folks. Linux can stand on its own two feet and be appreciated in and of itself. - mattus, on 11/11/2008, -4/+43Resuming != booting. Buried as inaccurate.
- aerospacemonkey, on 11/11/2008, -10/+45I hope this makes its way into Ubuntu Jaunty!
- cplusplus, on 11/11/2008, -4/+33That's nice and all but its really just unhibernating. The speed of a cold boot is the one that should count for the record books.
- norle, on 11/11/2008, -3/+31Where can I pick up a pair of Linux boots that quickly? The article doesn't say.
- inactive, on 11/11/2008, -5/+22So? This is not a "user" Linux. QNX will boot on certain hardware in less than half a second. This sort of thing is not news.
- feignNU, on 11/11/2008, -1/+16I think you don't really know what you're talking about...
- MWeather, on 11/11/2008, -1/+14Unless that consumer OS runs on a mobile device, which is what this is designed for, I'd imagine Android will be picking this (or something similar) up in the near future.
- ethana2, on 11/11/2008, -5/+17It probably will. With the recent surge of attention being paid to boot times, this next round of OS'es is going to rock pretty hard.
..or, in the case of Windows 7, suck a little bit less. - zosoIV, on 11/11/2008, -0/+12It says "Click for larger view of Lineo's fast-boot Linux demonstration", but I get a 125 x 97 pixel image. Huh?
- nikki2300dk, on 11/11/2008, -0/+12Damn. I want that Eee booting Fedora in 5 seconds.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7654890804.html - ThantiK, on 11/11/2008, -0/+12Was your mother around a lot of heavy metals when you were conceived?
That was much longer than 3 seconds. Even being generous and counting once you see the XP logo on screen it's well over 13 seconds to get to a desktop.
"Booting" in under 3 seconds means disk/cpu inactivity with everything loaded. Not seeing a pretty screen counting to 3 then getting "Welcome"...and still having to wait for a desktop to load up. - 4degrees, on 11/11/2008, -0/+11same thing we do every boot, try to take over the world!
- MWeather, on 11/11/2008, -0/+10Why is 4321234 getting buried? Windows 7 and Vista benchmarks are almost identical.
- bowens44, on 11/11/2008, -0/+10actually linux can run just about any linux program out there.
- 4321234, on 11/11/2008, -3/+12Or not;
http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_big_Windows_7_lie - embryoinbloom, on 11/11/2008, -0/+9no
- inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+8Was this ever truly funny?
Right, meme's don't have to be funny. - inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+8They could all learn from QNX
- postitnote, on 11/11/2008, -5/+12Can you name a few things in Vista or Windows 7 that you claimed?
- jesters28, on 11/11/2008, -0/+7You would think the length of the video being 37 seconds might have tipped you off to something...
- din100, on 11/11/2008, -0/+7windows 3.11 boots in 1.12 secs
- lewkus, on 11/11/2008, -1/+7just say 3 seconds.
2.97 makes you sound like an assclown. - feignNU, on 11/11/2008, -1/+7So? I think the take-away from this article is that an open operating system like linux encourages innovation and development, because the freedom that it provides for people who actually know how to use it is unparalleled by either windows or OSX.
- inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+6People who live and work nearby nuclear power plants care.
- godsdead, on 11/11/2008, -2/+8My vista boots in 2.57 days..
- penileartery, on 11/11/2008, -3/+9Thats pretty ***** sweet, nice little setup too.
- tetracell, on 11/11/2008, -6/+12Because people feel the need to get a quick shot in at Microsoft every time they see an opportunity so they can be King Internet for the day.
- alperea, on 11/11/2008, -0/+5Why, do you have the specific hardware it needs for this to work?
- Peterix, on 11/11/2008, -0/+5Dude, watch the video. There's a link in the article.
- zeroshiftsl, on 11/11/2008, -0/+5It probably won't. Jaunty is already being developed and Ubuntu usually only includes projects that have had time to develop. This is new, so it needs more work. The same goes with the 5 second booting thing. (This is 3 second resuming. NOT booting.) Although, these features may be something Ubuntu has been developing on their own too.
- inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+5http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTUweJKAUfk faster
- Zantesukin, on 11/11/2008, -1/+6What in gods name are you smoking?
- zeroshiftsl, on 11/11/2008, -5/+9Don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back for that "good" joke.
Something even funnier is that the site you're posting this on uses all Linux servers. - inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+4No, just like nobody needs a car that goes 0-60 in 3 seconds. That doesn't stop engineers from trying to make them, though, because they enjoy pushing things to their limits and improving things they are passionate about. If you don't care, then STFU, we don't care that you don't care.
- Jektal, on 11/11/2008, -0/+4It sounds like this is more of a hardware feature than a software one.
- mrsteveman1, on 11/11/2008, -0/+4For instance, how to avoid being used by anyone but Cisco :D
kidding - centran, on 11/11/2008, -3/+7Why would you ever need to reboot a linux machine?
- Greengoo, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4Oh you guys. I thought it was funny :P
- inactive, on 11/11/2008, -1/+5Lame. Check this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTUweJKAUfk - srg13, on 11/11/2008, -0/+4So pi is exactly 3 to you?
- senae, on 11/11/2008, -5/+9No, that would require him to think about his prejudice, and we can't have that.
- killdeer03, on 11/11/2008, -2/+5Video or it didn't happen
- Jektal, on 11/11/2008, -0/+3That's pretty much what the article says this does, except it:
1. Uses Flash memory instead of a HDD
2. Can use either a "clean" RAM image, or a hibernation image with the previous state on it
3. Compresses the RAM image - Rapter09, on 11/11/2008, -1/+4Thank you, i'm not the only person annoyed by this.
Come on guys, you're all supposed to be smarter than this.
Two guys from Intel, however, did it legitimately in five seconds.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7654890804.html - antdude, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3WINE
- TwenT4, on 11/11/2008, -0/+3Doesn't even look like it runs on x86... ARM and a bunch of other archs none of us have heard about, so Nokia and Pandora users might benefit from it.
Why is this front page? - Reformer81, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3Uhm, yes, Ubuntu IS an operating system. Linux is the kernel (or core) of the Ubuntu OPERATING SYSTEM. Next time you try to be sarcastic and elitist, do some research first.
- ncc74656m, on 11/11/2008, -1/+4Well, I did have Win98SE booting in 8 seconds at one point...
Machine was 500Mhz AMD K6II, 512MB RAM... - darienphoenix, on 11/12/2008, -2/+5Windows IS garbage.
It's an OS you use for running modern games or specialist software. That's it. -
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