Re: Linux wannabe
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:09:17PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> Bill White wrote:
> > > You've never used Windows ME have you?
> >
> > I once interviewed with someone who said that "If you don't reboot
> > Windows 10 times a day you aren't working hard enough." Of course,
> > when I worked on Linux device drivers I had the same thoughts.
>
> That's fair enough... I mean, device drivers are part of the kernel, so
> when they crash (as one would when you're still debugging it) they'd
> take the rest of the kernel with them.
>
> > I think that Linux boots up faster than Windows, so it's maybe
> > an advantage.
>
> 2.4 boots quite a bit quicker than 2.2 did, but I have a feeling that
> Windows is quicker still. Of course, the golden rule of optimisation is
> that you optimise the most common task...
>
Can't be faster than a 3 second boot -
http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/news/index.html
:)
kent
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