Power-on to GUI in 20 seconds

[pgf at laptop.org]

bert wrote:
 > Am 29.08.2008 um 15:34 schrieb pgf at laptop.org:
 > 
 > > bert wrote:
 > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0fAUGRUDVA
 > >>
 > >> Brought to you by Gerardo Richarte, with bootstrapping help from  
 > >> Mitch
 > >> Bradley.
 > >
 > > i can't resist pointing out that we could probably do that with
 > > linux too, if we weren't committed to using an off-the-shelf desktop
 > > distribution.
 > 
 > Are we committed to that?

i suspect so.  it gives us huge leverage in terms of reducing
development time and in increased numbers of familiar developers. 
while i'm sure there's a bunch of savings that could be had
in boot time, some of it would come in terms of reduced or
delayed services and system flexibility.  the fact is that
once the XO is up and running, it's an extremely powerful,
full-fledged workstation.  (approximately speaking, of course. :-)
there's something to be said for that.

(i do think we should be making our dual-boot capabilities
equally available for all OSes.  i'd love to be able to
(trivially) try SqueakNOS or debxo, for instance, or be able to
experiment with application-specific fast-bootable images.  and i
think a lot of G1G1 folks that might prefer an "alternate"
distribution of some sort for day-to-day would probably like to
keep the OLPC code around as well, just to keep their laptops
"stock", and to track our progress.)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org