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Alright, you caught us. We're suckers for speedy, unrealistically
optimized boot times. The fine folks at Linux for Devices just
highlighted two major players on the horizon: Lineo's Warp 2, which is
about to launch; and MPC Data's SwiftBoot, which is now available.
Both of them are less of a "boot" and more of a "wake from
hibernation" sort of thing, but most of the issues are the same -- you
still have to boot a kernel, whether or not you're gonna populate the
system with a saved state when it's ready. Lineo is booting up Fedora
Linux 12 on an Atom Z530 machine, and has just hit the 4.06 second
mark -- compared to a 54.72 second "normal" boot time on the system.
Meanwhile, MPC Data is going after much more of a niche, but doing it
well: its SwiftBoot tech can get Linux up and running an actual
application on an embedded device-ready Renesas SuperH SH7724
processor in under a second (0.982 seconds, to be precise). This one
has to be seen to be believed, so check out the video after the break.
Sure, it won't help you love your pokey PC or Mac any more (though
Apple's doing its own work on this problem with its misnomered
"instant on" feature on the MacBook Air, which wakes the computer from
hibernation in a few seconds), but it's a nice glimpse of what's to
come.
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