[Arm-netbook] Debian boots in 0.87 seconds

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:45 PM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

 exactly.  but as peter says, for the "simplistic" solutions: go
beyond the exact requirements and it gets... complicated.

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

 star.  i will be able to do something half-way decent that will cope
with a lot more scenarios for that.

l.