/comp/ - Fastest-booting OS?

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-23 5:44

I'm soon going to have my own laptop. I plan on installing XP and Ubuntu, but it occured to me that, being it something I'm likely to carry places with me, I could use a really fast-booting OS to use anyplace or to show something to someone.

So, what fast graphical OS does /comp/ recommend?

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-23 6:25

Do Linux from scratch and you can tweak yourself a functional graphical system that boots from the cold in seconds. Of course, you won't get any hardware detection routines.

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-23 6:36

http://www.menuetos.net/

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-24 2:11

>>2
that or just a gentoo/archlinux install, be a bit easier. depending on what you use it for might also consider an ultra-light distro like dsl or puppy, failing that win2k shits all over ubuntu/debian/suse/etc in terms of boot time but then you have use windoze

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-24 2:33

Use gentoo, switch on parallel init script execution and patch your kernel with the FCACHE patch. I've yet to see another fully functional OS boot faster.

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-24 8:16

linuxbios. Using a hard disk really slows down the boot process.

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-24 9:56

no, u

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-24 14:23

damn small linux
http://damnsmalllinux.org/

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-24 23:01

Get an old 386 with a ROM-resident machine language monitor.

Boots in 0 seconds.

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-25 0:41

The C-64 also boots in a little less than one second.

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-25 0:42

get a linux server

boots in negative time, considering it never fucking crashes, you fucks

if you stoped using windoze you wouldn't have to worry about boot time so much

"my boot time takes too long" -- statement from windoze loser, cry for me bitch, run linux and get bill gates cum off yur face

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-25 2:19

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-25 18:49

the new 7.10 version of ubuntu boots very fast. I would stick with that.

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-26 19:28

TRON.

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-26 19:51

>>14
where do you get hardware drivers from?

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-28 0:46

microxp

Fastest-booting OS?

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16 Name: Anonymous 2007-10-28 0:46