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Quick Boot Linux Hopes To Win Over Windows Users

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the how-about-just-never-boot dept.

Al writes "A company called Presto hopes to exploit the painful amount of time it takes for Windows computers to start up by offering a streamlined version of Linux that boots in just seconds. Presto's distro comes with Firefox, Skype and other goodies pre-installed and the company has also created an app store so that users can install only what they really need. The software was demonstrated at this year's Demo conference in Palm Desert, CA. Interestingly, the company barely mentions the name Linux on its website. Is this a clever stealth-marketing ploy for converting Windows users to Linux?"

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  1. dfdsfsdfds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it has good impression

  2. Anyone else by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OFFTOPIC: Speaking of speed. Has anyone else noticed horrible DVD read speeds in the newer linux kernel distros? I have no problems in centos 5.2 or debian 5. DVD read speeds are horrible in ubuntu on different hardware and with both ATA and SATA DVD drives.

    Ubuntu:
    hdparm -t /dev/sr0 /dev/sr0:
      Timing buffered disk reads: 6 MB in 4.14 seconds = 1.45 MB/sec

    CENTOS: /dev/hda:
      Timing buffered disk reads: 74 MB in 3.70 seconds = 20.01 MB/sec

  3. What anoys me by jlebrech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What anoys me the most is booting Linux and I am forced to fsck my drives. could that not be done at shutdown when im not in a such a rush?

  4. Re:Hibernation? by jmcvetta · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    See, the immigrants don't care that much about a living wage, because they aren't citizens and they don't plan to stay. Poverty-level US wages make a nice nest egg when sent back home to a Third World country. So the model goes, come to the US, work here a few years while living in relative destitution, then go back home and live a good life.

    My proposed solution: make getting citizenship as easy for today's immigrants as it was for my (Irish) ancestors. Once that is done, and only once it's done, make it more or less impossible to work legally without citizenship, and see that the law is enforced. America wants and needs immigrants -- but we need them to be part of our country and build it up, not siphon off what's left of our wealth then jump ship after a couple years.