Wait... Cute? Wtf. Are you kidding, jd? Such a thing from someone with your stature is quite unexpected.

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Cool! It boots in 6 seconds!

Um...and then what? It boots in 6 seconds but let's face it, it's still Linux. Don't need a hard drive? Cool! So it runs what then on that little 2MB BIOS? OpenOffice? Gaim? Gimp? or are we just looking to run something to manage a network or something...if so, then why even run X11 at all? You CAN run multiple terminal sessions.

Or is the whole point and the whole exercise only to see "if it can be done". Yep, it can be done!

moving on...

Pointless.

Thus proving that the previous two posters aren't geeks

I consider myself a geek actually. But it would be much more impressive seing Windows XP booting up with its normal settings, in 5 seconds.

6 second boot time...makes me nostalgic for BeOS (is that geeky enough for you?)

Zuh?

I'm probably the biggest geek here...for instance I still have my NeXTStation Color over in the corner right now, though it hasn't run in years. But I'm not going to sit here and list off my credentials just to prove a point.

That point is, yes, this thing can boot into X11 in 6 seconds and in only 2mb...but so what? How practical is this? How much is missing or thrown out of the OS just so you can fit it all in 2mb WITH X11? I say throw out X11 from there, have it boot into just a shell and you have much more functionality.

Ok, sure...it's cool. Look, it boots in 6 seconds and boots up a very limited X11 server. But the neatness factor fades away about as fast as this thing boots.

Get back to me when you can fit an entire distro with applications on a 2mb BIOS.

ZUH?

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That point is, yes, this thing can boot into X11 in 6 seconds and in only 2mb...but so what? How practical is this? How much is missing or thrown out of the OS just so you can fit it all in 2mb WITH X11? I say throw out X11 from there, have it boot into just a shell and you have much more functionality.

We are talking about X here, an Xserver specifically. Running the Xclient apps on a headless box in the corner makes this entirely functional. Patch the kernel on the BIOS with openMOSIX and you can have a fast booting load sharing cluster of X workstations. What about this was useless again?

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