> -----Original Message-----
> I saw an interesting project where people were figuring out what steps
> you
> could cut out of a Linux boot for known hardware (like a laptop) to get
> it
> to boot all the way to logged in under X in less than five seconds.
> They
> apparently got it working, too.

Why should it even take that long?  Personally, I would have thought that 
by 2009 we would have instant-on computers.

By the way, how hard would it be to keep a cheap battery on the 
motherboard and, when the computer powers down, keep the RAM running long 
enough to copy it all into flash memory?  Then, when you want to turn it 
on, you only have to wait long enough to transfer it from the flash to the 
system RAM (and said copy could be high parallelized).  No booting, no 
sleeping, just on and off.

...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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