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Certainly looks interesting; will be good to watch and see how this kind of thing develops in the future - improving windows boot time must be a dream od windows users the world over, lol
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as is spelling ...Kieran wrote:Certainly looks interesting; will be good to watch and see how this kind of thing develops in the future - improving windows boot time must be a dream od windows users the world over, lol
also, i always remember linux taking a while to boot up... am i wrong? then again, linux is never really meant to be shut down is it
Quite, especially considering the over-use of american "english" in the windows OS But yes, I see your point with regards to my typogazzer wrote:as is spelling ...
Wrong on the first count (in part), right on the second. Linux doesn't need to be shut down or restarted save for kernel updates (which are rarely required immediately unless they contain critical security updates) or to save power. A machine running Linux *can* take a while to boot, but it really depends what is loaded during boot. Anything not required should be loaded later by the user as required. This enables faster boot time. Very few things must be started with the machine in Linux as few things are strictly managed at kernel level, unlike in windows. The fact more things are at kernel level in windows causes more restarts to be required as changes at that level are not realised until it the machine is restarted. It also increases the boot time. This is why a fresh install will boot faster than one with many applications installed that perform different functions. Linux boot time rarely fluctuates and certainly not on the scale of windows boot times.gazzer wrote:also, i always remember linux taking a while to boot up... am i wrong? then again, linux is never really meant to be shut down is it
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256Mb is the lowest recommended RAM amount to run the latest version of Fedora so slowness would be expected.
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The iRAM is generally a waste of time and space. A booting box isn't as HD limited as you'd think, it mostly has to wait for asynchronous hardware inits. Why do you think that HPC (high performance computing; supercomputers, clusters, etc.) doesn't use these?
For the memory you put on the iRAM, you'd get a better system by just putting the memory as system RAM.
It's a gimmick, but where there's money, there are always fools who own it.
For the memory you put on the iRAM, you'd get a better system by just putting the memory as system RAM.
It's a gimmick, but where there's money, there are always fools who own it.
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I don't mind waiting for 10-20 seconds while my OS boots up. As has already been said, free money is better spent on more RAM or a bigger HD.
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I haven't restarted/shut down my system in 42 days now so I don't think boot times bother me either, lol
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Get a SCSI hard drive if you are concerned about load times.
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