30 Sep
2004
30 Sep
'04
20:51
- wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Has The performance been forgotten?' on Thu, Sep 30 at 13:05:
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:50:05 -0500 Danny Sauer
wrote: [...]
BTW, I run SuSE in my car, on a Cyrix 6x86 underclocked to 266MHz. It goes from power off to fully booted, playing mp3s and displaying the id3 info on a vacuum fluorescent display in 17 seconds.
Cool! But I could probably beat that using BeOS -- it boots in less than 10 seconds IIRC ;)
I dunno - about 10-12 seconds of that is BIOS setup. BeOS starts up fast, but a stripped-down linux with tuned init scripts can certainly hold its own. :) --Danny, who should use the past tense, since the hard drive in that machine has been unhappy of late (it only 2/3 boots...)