5 second boot.

**tripzero** · 10-24-2008, 02:56 PM

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7NxCM8ryF8[/media]

5 seconds! 'nuf said...

**fabworks** · 10-24-2008, 03:59 PM

Do this for Windows and I'll be impressed.

**tripzero** · 10-24-2008, 05:26 PM

It would be impressive if windows could do this. After all, the Intel devs that got the 5 second boot in the video had to patch the Linux kernel, the desktop environment (XFCE) and X.

If 5 second boot in Linux is itself amazing, in windows, it would be phenomenal because you don't have code access to those components to make the tweaks.

Here's the article on how they did it: http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

The cool thing is their patches have been and will be submitted upstream so everyone will be able to take advantage of a quick boot.

**Punky** · 10-24-2008, 07:44 PM

even though my system resume hibernation about the same amount of time. I'm really happy to see linux getting this far, i can't wait for all this goodies to come together with a nice interface like that of Ubuntu mobile or Linpus, it'll be better if its classy skin like centrafuse.

**fabworks** · 10-24-2008, 08:31 PM

Punky, you have your system come out of hibernation in 5 seconds? How are you measuring this? I measure the boot time from the time the key is turned to the On/Acc position to the time the front end is loaded and playing what ever you had before hibernating.

**Machinehead** · 10-25-2008, 10:13 AM

It's 5 seconds after bios which is impressive, but it's not a 5 second boot. Probably more like 10 seconds depending on post times.

**mohamedali21** · 10-25-2008, 11:13 AM

i have my xp computer in stanby and never shut off mode. it resume in couple sec. would this be better instead of fighting for fast boot time.

**Machinehead** · 10-25-2008, 11:52 AM

Standby requires constant power to maintain the ram state and will kill your car's battery in a short period of time.

**mohamedali21** · 10-26-2008, 10:13 PM

not really, i have mine now over a year and no problem yet. the longest it stays without starting the car is over a week, still starts on first turn..