[Arm-netbook] Debian boots in 0.87 seconds

[joem]

On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 19:54 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> >> > Debian boots in 0.87 seconds:
> >>
> >>  ... not quite.  they say it boots to a busybox shell in 0.87 seconds,
> >
> > Good enough to run a program that puts up a background?
> 
>  yeah indeed.   if you only have one program to run then it's
> fantastic to have it starting up in like one or two seconds. 

Perfect for hand held gadgets we build that are wanting an Android like
colour touch interface program written in Gambas3 to start up
and run in under 3 seconds.

> 
> >>  so it's a balancing act that has already moved outside of the
> >> mainstream debian (or other OS) infrastructure and purpose, that then
> >> needs maintaining.
> >
> > What about an open sourced script that can do this feat?
> 
>  there was an article a while back published by.. ahh who was it...
> montavista or redhat... it was 6 or 7 years ago.... there is quite a
> lot that needs to be done.
> 
> >>  all of which takes time, hence why i would (personally) like to see
> >> some up-front payment before committing time to such an idea.
> >
> > Name a figure.
> 
> me? GBP 400 a day, minimum 5 days to get something reasonably quick
> (low-hanging fruit so to speak), going beyond the easiest stuff i'd be
> happy to continue for up to 3-4 weeks to tackle some of the
> harder/more-complex stuff.
> 

I'll band a 10k figure about to see if anyone bites.