Re: Instant-on Linux

That would be truly sweet.

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Steve Browne <[email protected]> wrote:
>  From John Dvorak's "Inside Track", PC Magazine, August 2008:
>
> "The ASUS sneak attack. The most interesting story the media is
> downplaying is the ASUS announcement that it will have a ROM boot chip
> on all its motherboards, which will boot Linux instantly on start-up.
> When you flick the switch the machine is instantly on...
>     This development is important, since 90% of the time all a user
> wants to do is surf the Web. Often when leaving for a trip, I forget to
> check the weather. To do so, I would have to start up my computer, wait
> forever for it to boot, then go online. This way, I just flip it on, and
> boom -- I get a browser and the info and I'm done."
>
> A regular on/off button will still boot M$ or whatever the old way.
>
> Steve
>
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