lockergnome.com— Linux can boot faster if a PC's BIOS is replaced by an open BIOS. Among other benefits, open BIOSes can save the time wasted by proprietary BIOS legacy support for MS-DOS and other unnecessary functions.
Oct 8, 2007View in Crawl 4
Good point - I almost always hibernate my laptop. Sometimes it goes weeks with being truly rebooted - although as one person pointed out, Ubuntu seems to want a restart about every third or fourth update, much more often than people pretend.
moschopsOct 9, 2007
Good point - I almost always hibernate my laptop. Sometimes it goes weeks with being truly rebooted - although as one person pointed out, Ubuntu seems to want a restart about every third or fourth update, much more often than people pretend.
int19hOct 10, 2007
I guess 200% faster than x = x*2 + x = 3x ?
agretOct 10, 2007
My desktop board has it, it has a logo that says Backup Bios or something similar in the top right of the screen when you turn it on.