A laptop that boots in less than 2 secs?

Looks like we’ll see it in our lifetime!

APCmag: Intel Wants Laptops to Boot in Two Seconds

Intel’s Moblin 2.0 platform could be well-named, with the chipmaker hoping its open source Linux OS will deliver a two second boot time. Forget about standby-resume routines, sleep modes and even ‘pre-boot’ environments like Splashtop. Intel reckons you’ll soon be able to take your netbook a cold start to a desktop that’s ready for work in just two seconds. That’s the target for Moblin, the mobile-optimised Linux variant which Intel is developing for netbooks and mobile Internet devices. Demonstrating the current alpha build of Moblin 2.0  at this month’s Linux Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, Imhad Sousou – director of Intel’s Open Source Technology Centre – showed that major components of the Linux engine, including the graphics stack, load in under five seconds. The challenge is trimming this down even further to the point where a netbook’s total startup time is just two seconds. But Sousou declared that “we think that two second boot is possible.”

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