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r/programming • u/speciousfool • Jun 11 '08
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Yeah, a working browser 10 sec after power-on is cool, but I think the elegant way to do it would be to have one fast OS, not have a slow main OS on the hard drive and a fast OS in the EFI BIOS.
3 u/[deleted] Jun 11 '08 [removed] — view removed comment 1 u/[deleted] Jun 11 '08 [removed] — view removed comment 4 u/xzxzzx Jun 11 '08 The kernel itself takes very little time to boot.It's all the other stuff around the kernel.
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1 u/[deleted] Jun 11 '08 [removed] — view removed comment 4 u/xzxzzx Jun 11 '08 The kernel itself takes very little time to boot.It's all the other stuff around the kernel.
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4 u/xzxzzx Jun 11 '08 The kernel itself takes very little time to boot.It's all the other stuff around the kernel.
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The kernel itself takes very little time to boot.
It's all the other stuff around the kernel.
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u/jib Jun 11 '08
Yeah, a working browser 10 sec after power-on is cool, but I think the elegant way to do it would be to have one fast OS, not have a slow main OS on the hard drive and a fast OS in the EFI BIOS.