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Embedded Linux Achieves One-Second Boot Time
Sam writes "A new goalpost has been set in the race for faster bootup times. MontaVista Software announced (and demonstrated at the Virtual Freescale Technology Forum) a dashboard application going from cold boot to operational in one second flat on their embedded Linux platform. Although this is unlikely to immediately benefit your average Linux user, previous real-time patches have eventually made their way into the main kernel."
I can post before I log in.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
It isn't the black itself that gets to them it is the black on white action.
They just want to simulate the effect of printing marketing materials on a worn-out laser printer in need of toner because that looks sooooo professional.
Nothing says we're professionals and have important information for you like a crooked illegible photocopy except perhaps a grade-school spirit duplicator. Expect funky light purple text next. The holy grail, of course, will be a wrinkled paper background that actually makes it look like they dug the web page back out of the trash and gave it to you.
What are you talking about? On my monitor his site is shown with the same amber colour like any other.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."