Comments on: Linux Boot in One Second – Musings About BIOS Evolution

By: Karja

Karja — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:15:28 +0000

Haha.. Touché! I have to reboot every other week or three if I’ve played some strange game that messes up the driver, but I never reboot other than that. So I guess there’s not much point in optimizing desktop loading times at all.

(If the BIOS doesn’t represent a bottleneck for the OS even in running state, that is. Then it’s a completely different issue.)

By: GBGames

GBGames — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:25:11 +0000

Actually, I had heard about some open source BIOS that booted way quicker than the normal one, and one of the developers was quoted as saying something like “Yeah, it loads much faster. We have no idea what the main manufacturers are doing that makes their stuff so slow.”

But, seriously, how often do you see a BIOS screen? My uptime has been at least a month or two. B-)