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[Michal Gornisiewicz]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:09:40PM +0800, Mike Fineberg wrote:
> Easy - no start up time. no shut down time. no disk checking. That's what you need for a car mp3 player... It's not a matter of it being a 'good' OS, it's a matter of a fast, very, very small OS.

A nice small debian system will fulfill all those requirements. I run
debian on my car mp3 player & POST takes most of the booting time, not
linux itself booting. (From memory it's about 20sec for post & 10sec for
linux). To really get no startup time you'd need something like linuxBIOS.
Run a journalised fs and/or mount partitions ro & there is no shutdown
time. Just pull the plug. This also results in no disk checking.


MG
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