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alanbcohen:
I have put rc5 on an old 32mb stick and have been able to boot my Asus 701.  But, it is much slower than the built in Xandros image.  I am looking for a fast booting OS that can go to a local browser in a shorter time than the delivered OS for the purpose of using a local wiki as my notebook, addressbook, calendar, and glucose log on a small portable device.  I guess I'm looking for a Splashtop similar environment so a netbook could be used instead of a PDA.  I'll be following this project's progress and hope what I'm looking for is also in the back of your minds as you continue development.

Thanks for the preview of a future.

curaga:
Usb sticks are slow. If you put the kernel and initrd on your HD, you can shave the slow bootloader loading time away; it's not a fair comparison to have ~5 MB/s device compared to a 150 MB/s device afterall.

Thanks for the feedback though :)


Edit: a quick side note. Google points to the eeeuser forums, where they say a typical Xandros boot on an eee 700 or 900 takes ~20-28 secs from poweroff. While I believe we have no intent to specialize for any certain machine, I do think that when compared on a similar boot media, we boot faster ;)
I have recorded 5.6s from right after initrd loaded to full desktop on my c2d.

alanbcohen:
Thanks for the suggestion.  But since my eee701 doesn't have a HD (4gb SSD and a 8gb SD). 
The 5.6sec sound great; what did you do to speed up the process on your machine? 

My guess is the opportunity to speed up the startup is mostly in eliminating the need for hardware detection by tailoring the install to the hardware.

curaga:
Nothing; that number is bare TC booting from usb (the big reason for not counting bootloader time, aka loading kernel and initrd to ram). If I did use static devices instead of dynamic ones, that could take about 0.5 secs off.
Edit to clarify: It did not have any internal changes, but I did have some cheatcodes: "nofstab nodhcp base norestore nolocal" atleast. There might have been some other bootcodes used too.

By HD I did mean SSD's too, because they use the same (faster) bus, ie sata or ide instead of usb. The internal SD card readers are usually usb connected, and they would so offer no speed advantage.

wurstbrot:
are you looking for a fast small kernel? Is there really no way back to 2.4.xx ?!

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