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Fast-Booting OS for Usually-Off Appliance PCs?

Posted by timothy on from the zero-to-sixty-in-zilch-dot-two dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I have some older computer equipment at work that I want to re-purpose as application appliances. The machines will sit, unpowered, until needed, then powered up. No way around the 'sitting powered off' — company directive. What is the quickest-booting OS I could use for them? I know about LinuxBIOS, but that would require new hardware, which does not go along which the re-purposing theme. Some of them do not need to be connected to a network, so an old version of Linux or Windows 98 are possible. DOS is too old to consider. So what are my options?"

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  1. Re:Splashtop by fruitbane · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, because I know *I* can afford a new PC that's going to sit turned off and un-used until I need to do something very specific. I wish I had your expense account.

  2. Re:BeOS by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Troll

    BeOS was dying at that time. All Microsoft's pressure did was put a stake in its heart.

    LK

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    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  3. Re:BeOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    OMG you mean to tell me that Microsoft had the audacity to try to sell their product? Didn't they realize the moral thing to do was simply fold up and die because a small minority of ultra-geeks would bitch about them 10 years later?