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How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux

Posted by timothy on from the mild-claims dept.

chromatic writes "Kernel hackers Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok showed off Linux booting in five seconds at last month's Linux Plumbers Conference. Arjan and other hackers have already improved the Linux user experience by reducing power consumption and latency. O'Reilly News interviewed him about his work on improving the Linux experience with PowerTOP, LatencyTOP, and Five-Second Boot."

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  1. Re:Should lead to possibly great advertisements by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kudos to you sir, for reducing the time it takes to type congratulations by instead using grats!

  2. Re:Should lead to possibly great advertisements by Bryansix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually Vista with 4 Gigs of RAM boots pretty quickly. It's once it's up that it is slow.

  3. On an old Pentium III laptop... by mikael · · Score: 5, Funny

    My stepfather still has an old Pentium III laptop with Windows 95 running on it. Booting the laptop to read an E-mail takes around 20 minutes. His advice to anyone who wants to use it, "switch on the PC, do something else like have a bath, do the lawn, read the newspaper, or have a coffee, and the PC will be ready to use before you know it".

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  4. Re:Does it matter? by not+already+in+use · · Score: 5, Funny

    How ironic, with all the Vista bashing that tends to go on in threads like these. Vista boots relatively quickly, and hasn't been powered down for me for weeks since suspend/wake works perfectly.

    But at least someone, somewhere can boot linux in 5 seconds.

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  5. Re:Should lead to possibly great advertisements by CODiNE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, Safe Mode.

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