5 sec boot

[Mitch Bradley]

This depends pretty strongly on which Linux distribution you choose as 
the basis for your USB key Sugar installation.  The need to be 
compatible with a wide range of different computers is going to be a 
significant issue.  If you have to deal with a lot of possibilities, you 
need a lot of code and that code has to check for a lot of things.

That said, there are probably improvements to be had.  It's probably 
best to address the issue with the organization that is responsible for 
the particular Linux distribution.  My work has been specifically 
focused on what we can do with XO laptops, for which we know the 
hardware configuration.

Caroline Meeks wrote:
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>     a) Some people argue that we shouldn't bother to speed up boot,
>     because
>     suspend/resume optimization is more important.  (I agree that S/R is
>     more important, but I wish that we could do both.)
>
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> Thank you all for your work on cutting down boot times.
>
> I am interested in the use case where a student does not have a lap 
> top they can carry with them, but does have access to computer labs at 
> school, in the library, at after-school day-care, and has a family 
> computer at home.  This is true for many US students.
>
> We are looking at putting Sugar onto a USB key so that students can 
> boot up any of these computers to be their Sugar system as they move 
> from place to place.
>
> Clearly boot-time will be critical.  Also the machine may, or may not, 
> change between boots so I think that cuts down some of the short-cuts 
> you can take.
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> The basics aren't working yet for the USB boot so this isn't a request 
> to work on this boot speed issue right now, but it would be great if 
> while people are thinking about these issues you'd take notes as to 
> which techniques may help reduce boot time from a USB Key.
>
> Thanks!
> Caroline
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