linuxdevices.com — Japanese embedded Linux house Lineo has announced a quick-start technology that it claims can boot Linux in 2.97 seconds on a low-powered system. The technology appears similar to but much faster than Linux's existing "suspend-to-disk" capability. Warp 2 comprises a bootloader, Linux kernel, and a "hibernation driver," says the company.
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twent4Nov 11, 2008
Doesn'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?
palmdocNov 11, 2008
Yes but can it play Crysis?
Closed AccountNov 11, 2008
Ubuntu Hardy got windows to boot in 9 seconds, (VM) so this should be great...
gigaNov 11, 2008
"Why is 4321234 getting buried? Windows 7 and Vista benchmarks are almost identical."From the benchmarks I have seen, Windows 7 boots faster and is more responsive. The applications themselves aren't any faster, but you know what? They are benchmarking the applications there, not the OS itself. If the OS is broken it will slow apps down, but if the OS is working there isn't a lot it can do to alter the runtime of standalone applications.
Closed AccountNov 11, 2008
@4321234I thought that was a video :'(*disappointed*
darienphoenixNov 12, 2008
Windows IS garbage.It's an OS you use for running modern games or specialist software. That's it.
jbondNov 12, 2008
Ubuntu really needs to do work on startup time.
syme6Nov 12, 2008
enjoy your corporate operating system.
Closed AccountNov 12, 2008
You're damned right I do, and it's open, genius.
thewindblowsNov 13, 2008
You may not have to reboot at all with linux eventually, just suspend.Introduced into the kernel ( 2.6.27 i think ) was a technique to replace the kernel while the system is running.The only issue is the applications/drivers would need to adapt to this and binary only drivers would most likely fail to work with this.
thewindblowsNov 13, 2008
SSD's make going into hibernation a bit slower, because of their slow write times. Though there is SSD that write faster than hard drives ( Intel's ones that arent on market :P ).