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Fast-Booting Text-Editor Operating System?

Posted by timothy on from the hell-you-say dept.

cgenman writes "What is the fastest booting operating system out there that is still sufficient for editing text? Quite frequently, I'll need to boot my laptop and edit a few lines of text, or jot down an idea or two. XP loads in roughly 4 minutes to usable, and Ubuntu loads in about 60 seconds. Both feel like an eternity if there isn't a pen and paper around. What is the best operating system that people have found which would load to useable in under 20 seconds, can edit text files in something a little more friendly than VI or EMACS, yet can still access fat32 formatted USB drives? GUIs aren't required, but commands which require arcane foreknowledge or a cheat sheet are out."

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  1. Your mother is a walking pile of aids by (TK2)Dessimat0r · · Score: -1, Troll

    Frost piss, take your cock and shove it in some machinery enjoy the blood that results

  2. Hibernate mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How the fuck did this moron get front page billing?

    Next Ask Slashdot: Hey I've been showering daily but I'm starting to think water isn't doing the job sufficiently. Is there any sort of surfactant or detergent that can help clean away some of the dirt and body odor that accumulates on my skin? Thanks!

  3. Re:Probably one from Stalman by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, a full emacs distro boots like it came from Redmond or worse.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  4. Re:DOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Interesting idea but from a quick scan of their page they appear to be jerks. "No Subversion access for you!", morons... If it's open-source who the hell cares if people can check out the code? Idiotic.

    That project will remain obscure and slowly die with that kind of attitude.

  5. What it's really like. How things should work. by twitter · · Score: -1, Troll

    A guy pushing his car down the street asks you for an easier way over the hill. You tell him to drive instead of push. The windows user is unaware his computer can do that after years of power management failure. He tries it once and sees his favorite full GUI and text editor instead of booting like he had a Winblows box. Wow, thanks, I forgot that cars were designed to move people rather than people designed to move cars.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.