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by DanBC
4634 days ago
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There's the famous "5 second boot" for Fedora on an EEE PC 701. That's a weak machine with a small, old, SSD. It's an "honest" boot time - from power on to desktop up with idle CPU and disk. (https://lwn.net/Articles/299483/) Here's an article trimming boot time of Fedora 17 to 3 seconds. (http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-17-boot-opti...) There's some overlap between the two different approaches. If you wanted some esoteric hardware you could make an always powered RAM disc. |
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