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Actually its not

jonesyx2 21st Jul 2009

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.