Future of Ondemand?

[Guy]

The concepts in Tiny Core are brilliant. Ondemand is another great one.

I would be interested to know what we can expect in the future?

Other Linux distros are going to a lot of effort to reduce boot time. When running extensions in ondemand mode, Tiny Core would be one of the quickest operating systems to boot.

Is there any plans to make this the official way to run Tiny Core?

The ondemand menu and main menu could be merged, and some method included to know whether this is the first time a program is started, so it could start as ondemand, or whether it has been started already, so it could start as with the normal menu.

I know there are a few things to take into consideration.

[thane]

I'm a little puzzled by the interest in minimizing boot time. I can see how it would be important to a laptop user who may boot several time in a day. It seems like it would be of less concern to a desktop user (like me) who boots once a day if that. (If I lived alone I'd probably leave my PC on all the time. But if I do my wife thinks I'm wasting electricity so to keep the peace I shutdown when I'm sleeping or at work). In addition, right now I'm actually loading all extensions to RAM which increases boot time, but for me gives better performance once the box is booted.

My bottom line: faster boot times are OK for those that need them, but I'm not going to try for it at the expense of better performance the rest of the time.

[Guy]

I believe there is no noticeable reduction in performance.

[Lee]

I suppose the an ondemand application starts a -tiny- bit slower the first time used, but other than thatit should be the same.  Really tiny.

@ thane - I had no idea my wife was also married to someone else!

[bigpcman]

I believe there is no noticeable reduction in performance.

I wonder if this is really true. I would assume running something like a mysql data base out of ram would be faster under medium to heavy load. It seems to me any application located in ram that would otherwise have to continuously access disk will be significantly faster.   

[roberts]

With copy2fs.flg or copy2fs.lst in optional/ provides the same run time as at boot time.