my Win 7 install on my Intel SSD has been booting in 10-15 seconds for over 3 months now. I've actually started shutting my computer down again - though this is mostly to cut on power costs - but the incredible boot times make it much less of a pain.
/ducks
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MontaVista boasts one-second boot-up
Summary
The embedded Linux vendor released a video demonstrating a vehicle dashboard system going from cold boot into a "fully operational" state in one second.
Topics
The race to fast boot times is on, with MontaVista making the latest headlines.
The embedded Linux vendor announced in the United States Tuesday its latest system is able to boot in one second, and released a video demonstrating a vehicle dashboard system going from cold boot into a "fully operational" state in that time.
The one-second timing may not be directly translatable to a desktop Linux OS environment, however, because booting a full-fledged OS requires additional drivers and processes to be launched.
Meanwhile, Intel's netbook Linux OS, Moblin, too is eyeing fast boot-up times. It recently partnered Phoenix Technologies which produces a fast-boot technology called HyperSpace, promising to bring the technology to the Moblin project.
The software consists of a stripped down Linux environment with a browser and Wi-Fi software, meant to go from boot-up to the Web quickly.
According to reports, Moblin integrating HyperSpace should be able to go from powered off to the Web in less than 10 seconds.
Competitor, Canonical has also said its latest release Ubuntu 9.04 is focused on booting faster.
This article was originally posted on ZDNet Asia.
Talkback Most Recent of 9 Talkback(s)
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gnesterenko15th Jul 2009 -
re: *yawn*
... and take a nap is what I have to do every time I have to boot into a Windows environment.
^o^
n0neXn0ne15th Jul 2009 -
big deal
my 286 boots windows 3.0 in 4 seconds :-P
nickloss15th Jul 2009 -
More functional too!
Heh, and it's probably a lot more functional too!
Yeah, we had browsers back in the Windows 3 days
. You had that, plus basically a full OS able to run third party applications.
In fact, in a virtual machine - from the time I press "enter" after typing "win" to the time Program Manager is done displaying all of its icons is less than a second. Windows 3 is fast on a modern system.
Of course, it was easy to hack and destroy stuff unintentionally too. A lot of what makes modern OSes slow is all of the security measures we have to use.
Of course language changes have also slowed stuff down: Today people want to develop in .NET, Java, various scripting languages, and of course the absolute mess of a language soup that drives the Internet stuff we have today.
CobraA115th Jul 2009 -
Agreed.. Yawn
It's like trying to sell a vacuum cleaner by boasting how many amps it uses, as if the electrical consumption is a measure of how good it is.
Similarily, boasting about boot times while stripping out complex OS subsystems is just as meaningless.
croberts15th Jul 2009 -
Analogy
Well current draw is an indicator of how much power it has since V * I is Watts which directly translatable to HP after taking into account motor efficiency (which are actually quite high).
May not indicate how efficiently the HP power is used to create airflow and suction but generally more power means more airflow and suction (the I and V of vacuums)
And for power tools it is an excellent indicator since so many list the "peak horsepower" which is just a marketing lie.
But I do understand your point regarding boot times.
MeMyselfAndI_z15th Jul 2009 -
Actually its not
Considering MontaVista is an embedded OS, I would argue that boot times are MORE important than complex OS subsystems.
Embedded products typically are required to do one specific task and are therefore optimized to remove unnecessary subsystems. Boot time becomes key as you don't want to get into a car and it take 10 seconds to turn on, you dont want to wait a minute to restart your router.
The ultimate aim is going to be booting the minimum required to do your task, in the quickest amount of time.
Considering my cut-down bare minimum version of the Xilinx kernel just took about 6 seconds to boot, 1 second for a full working system with 2D/3D graphics core and others is pretty impressive... so boast away.
jonesyx221st Jul 2009 -
Most systems that do this strip out everything or cache it
Thus requiring a special boot procedure to clear the cache. Not exactly the best way to do things.. but i guess if it gets the job done.
Been_Done_Before15th Jul 2009 -
RE: MontaVista boasts one-second boot-up
Hmm... I think all this is doing, is shifting the load
time from the boot-up to application load. I guess that
might be the right thing to do... or maybe we should all
just attend Boot Camp
http://www.dealsshoppie.com/product/search.php?
ID=1416959424&product=Boot+Camp
superchunk15th Jul 2009
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