On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:09:17PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Bill White wrote: > > > You've never used Windows ME have you? > > > > I once interviewed with someone who said that "If you don't reboot > > Windows 10 times a day you aren't working hard enough." Of course, > > when I worked on Linux device drivers I had the same thoughts. > > That's fair enough... I mean, device drivers are part of the kernel, so > when they crash (as one would when you're still debugging it) they'd > take the rest of the kernel with them. > > > I think that Linux boots up faster than Windows, so it's maybe > > an advantage. > > 2.4 boots quite a bit quicker than 2.2 did, but I have a feeling that > Windows is quicker still. Of course, the golden rule of optimisation is > that you optimise the most common task... >
Can't be faster than a 3 second boot - http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/news/index.html :) kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
