all--
i know a couple of you use/are interested in different linux flavors,
so i thought this news item from <http://slashdot.org> might be of
interest (posted below). according to the linuxdevices news site
<http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5907201615.html>, normal boot
times for linux runs closer to 5 seconds, so this is a fairly
significant boost.

enjoy your autumn,
::iLLiac::

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*Developers: Software Tweak Makes Linux Boot In Under 200 ms*
(Posted by timothy on Monday September 29, @08:20PM from the ymwv
dept.)

An anonymous reader writes "A version of Linux has been created that
radically speeds up system boot time -- to less than 200 milliseconds
(ms) from power-up to application code startup. The techniques,
created by Real-time Linux vendor FSMLabs, are processor independent,
and boot times of under 100 mS are expected in the future." Update:
09/30 01:04 GMT by T: Yep -- both headline and post should have
read "ms" (milliseconds) rather than "mS" (milli Siemens); thanks to
all the alert readers.
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