Linked by weildish on Wed 14th Jan 2009 05:40 UTC
Nobody ever liked looking at a boot screen, especially when in a hurry for quick access to a bit of needed information. Quick-boot technology has been around for ages, it seems, going seemingly nowhere, as if taunting. However, a number of new products displayed recently at CES by companies such as Sony, Lenovo, Phoenix, and Qualcomm, gives one the idea that the quick-boot technology will soon be implemented into netbooks, and all for the better (quicker, at least).
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2005-07-06
I agree, it's not that our present day OSes can't boot fast, it is all the cruft that get added (by both users and manufacturers) that slow the boot process.
Worse, even that extra stuff would not slow down booting if written/invoked to run *AFTER* the basic OS has booted.
My BeOS startup folder is full of code that I invoke 15 seconds after the boot script is called. All of it is stuff that I use, none of it is stuff I needed right at the moment I turn on my computer.
Most OSes today seem to be packed with services that the user rarely needs but are always invoked in the boot process before the user is allowed to do anything with their computer.