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Re: MS tricks die-hard XP users into liking Vista
The biggest factor slowing down boot time is the antiquated BIOS, Linux for e.g. can bootstrap all the hardware attached to a PC in a handful of seconds, coreboot, a F/OSS project which uses a stripped down Linux embedded in the flash rom where the BIOS resides can get to the bootloader in about a second on solid state media, a bit longer for HDDs since you have to wait for them to spin up. There's also initialisation systems for Linux that only takes a few more seconds to load all the base system services to get a desktop display manager up.
Perhaps the only thing slowing the abandonment of the PC-BIOS is the people who also wont let Windows XP go.
Main Rig -> J&W RS780UVD-AM2+ | AMD X4 9750 | 4x2GB GieL PC2-6400 | 2x500GB (md-raid0) | Sapphire HD4870 | Gentoo (AMD64)
Server Box -> Asus P5B-E Plus | C2D E6320 | 2x1GB OCZ PC2-8500 | 4x500GB (md-raid5) | BFG 8800GTS 320Mb | Gentoo (Hardened/AMD64)
Test Box -> P4E 3.2Ghz Rev. E0 | Asus P4C800-E Deluxe | 2x1GB PC3200 | 1x500Gb | NVidia TNT 2 | Gentoo (X86)
Currently breaking: eINIT
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