From Naught to Sixty in 5 seconds

Booting Linux on an Asus EeePC 901 in 5 seconds

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[Leo Jiménez]

F**k! It boot faster that my cell phone!

[Maracachucho]

5 seconds? But i want it now!

[kerstin xerxes]

My PC load the latest Debian dist in just 14 sec including latest KDE.

I'm using the F120 SSD Corsair and AMD Athlon X4.

[firmware21]

Moblin is a good os for this netbook

[CNetCore]

Anyone has 7 sec boot from a mechanical HDD?

[Tia1ko]

@stiiixy: "SSD's dont magically make booting fast, nor do CPU's. OS's have to be optimised to make the most from a drive. 30 years of optimising an OS on spindles compared to 2 years of testing SSD's?"

There already is a component in modern OSes that can handle SSD the way they behave - it's called memory manager. SSDs simply behave like DRAMs (only with greater latency when reading and writing and with larger "lines").

[marginataman]

omg

[Jester995]

Dumbass.

[actionowl]

Dl'ing an image RIGHT now

[Poopshooot99]

lol

[andy spanker]

Not even Intel can get around physics, you can only load so much in a certain time, this machine has a ssd drive so any OS is going to load fast, and the speed of the processor is going to have an effect on the boot time. So if you have a small OS a fast CPU and fast driive you'll get a fast boot, but what is going to be availabe when it starts? If you have to then load a shit stack of apps so as to be able to do anything it aint that good, and I HATE waiting for my machibe to start.