a while back i saw an article on /. (i thiiiiink) talking about an os that could do what linux never did to the windows market share (they were just speculating). i went to the website and it claimed the aim of the creaters was to make an os that booted in under 10 seconds. ive googled, ive searched /. and ive come up with zilcho. i was hoping someone could help me out here. any other suggestions for an os? needs to do the following: act as file serv for windows network play mp3s/cds light on the resources thanks folks edit: i appologise, i forgot rule #1 of forums: so feel free to point me in that direction if its been answered
You don't need a fast boot in Linux since you'll rarely reboot, so why do you worry about that? If you know you have to search before asking and you didn't do it, I wouldn't wait for people to reply, since I don't think they'll make that "effort" when you didn't even bother to search before.
It didnt actually boot it compiled itself in 10 seconds and the started to boot. Any linux box will rarely get rebooted. because it is so stable. I would recomend Gentoo if you know something about linux or if not something like ubuntu.
no need to worry folks, i found it: www.syllable.org and they claim it boots in under 10 seconds usually.
my RAID card takes that long to POST in itself... PalmOS is the only one I know of, and of course anything else for handhelds and phones. Their claim is probably from when the OS starts loading to useable, not push the button to useable. Beacuse if that's what they mean, my comp would boot in under 10 seconds or so (maybe 15, I don't really care though).
Just like with windows, it all depends on what all modules you load and how much crap is compiled into your kernel. I believe a minimal kernel with minimal modules can boot that quick off a HDD or ramdisk.. -scoob8000
Then go try it, what's stopping you? If you're waiting for us to say "Yeah, do this this this this and that and it will always boot in under 10 seconds" you're probably not going to get it, because I don't think any of us have used it (pretty safe to say at this point). So your shot is just as good as anyone else's. Go get it, install it, and run it, and kill it, and reinstall it... just like anyone else would do. You're not going to get a fail-safe answer from anyone about linux. Either you know what you're doing or you don't. And either it will survive anyway, or it won't. If it doesn't you go reinstall. No big deal.
...thanks for the words of encouragement. im not waiting on anything, i already have it, ive just got things to do before i install it.
