Re: dynamic loading, was "Ugly Q, I admit"

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 okamoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > hmm. I've seen 12 second-to-multiuser boots or less with linuxbios
> > machines from power-on. I have a busybox linux+linuxbios box that boots in
> > 5 seconds -- no /etc/rc nonsense in there though. This is the first box 
> > I've had that boots faster than an LCD can go from sleep mode to 
> > displaying. 
> 
> What is linuxbios machine?  It's BIOS is what written in ROM?

see www.linuxbios.org, and I am sorry to have taken this so far 
off-topic. 

Except, we really hope to finish up the fast plan9 boot from linuxbios 
next summer ...

> This is much expanded when we use gnome...  I believe this is not rare
> for many of Linux users.

I always remove gnome.

ron