How fast does Aros reboot

Just a quick video to show Aros rebooting times. Obviously this does not include booting the whole machine because you rarely do that and PC's take forever.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• VMWAros
• live
• amiga
• clusteruk

[videowatcherdeluxe]

Nice but wouldn't it better to have a stable OS that doesn't force you to reboot that often? In the last 12 months I tried AROS twice and it crashs ways too often to actually use it for something productive. Even applications like the included DirOpus can crash the entire system. Anyway I'm just downloading Icaros 1.2.4 and I hope to see an improvement :-)

[clusterukdevelopment]

@videowatcherdeluxe

Have to say Aros is improving, although I must admit 1.2.4 whilst being a better version for features is actually less stable than 1.2.3, but we are working hard on this and I know that changes to key parts have disrupted the relatively stable 1.2.3 for a while. Any way it is still cool.

Plus I am funding major improvements for April 2011.

[ASCII808]

that is pretty fast, I wonder if that includes the drivers, etc. what takes the longest to boot up in most operating systems are the drivers.

[clusterukdevelopment]

That is everything, the Amiga OS is very efficient and on fast hardware it flies.

[sunnz]

That was a reboot!! Really!! Or just restarting the graphics? If it is really a reboot that's very impressive!!!

[clusterukdevelopment]

Yes, honest it was a reboot. It was a warm reboot and not rebooting the bios etc, only rebooting the operating system.

[Wiilovewii]

Man, I wish windows rebooted like that in 7 secs :(

Amiga is the shit! I love it!

[sunnz]

Hmm I heard about "warm reboot" but I never see such option in an OS... what's going on here? Does Aros provide it for you?

[link48010]

@videowatcherdeluxe AROS has run nearly problem free on my macbook for a few months now. Having issues with the trackpad though (no right click at all) so I have to use a USB mouse (which only just stared being supported as well).

[videowatcherdeluxe]

Nice but wouldn't it better to have a stable OS that doesn't force you to reboot that often? In the last 12 months I tried AROS twice and it crashs ways too often to actually use it for something productive. Even applications like the included DirOpus can crash the entire system. Anyway I'm just downloading Icaros 1.2.4 and I hope to see an improvement :-)

[renkinjutsu01]

@sunnz This is possible in linux. There's a kernel option (i think it's called kexec). I used a distribution that did this automatically, but i can't figure out how to do it myself

[romaneberle]

@sunnz:

AFAIK switching the computer off+on or hitting the reset-button is a "cold" (=hardware, immediate), and using a key-combination or command is a "warm reboot" (=software). on windows, the "warm reboot" (e.g. ctrl-alt-del) triggers a shutdown sequence and restarts the mainboard logic. on AROS, ctrl-alt-del behaves differently: just reload the OS - a "hot reboot" maybe. ;-) pretty unique, even the amiga didn't have this IIRC :-) in any case AROS doesnt have a shutdown sequence.