On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:45 PM, joem joem@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.