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My latest warning against dual- and triple-booting Linux and BSDs

08/15/2008  
Relevance: 8.55
My advice is to avoid dual-booting, and especially triple-booting (or even more than that). If you set up a box to dual-boot with two Linux distros, Linux and Windows, or even a BSD (OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD) and Linux, and you leave it alone, you'll probably be OK. But me, I'm testing things all the time, and lately I've been playing around with triple-booting on my Gateway Solo 1450 laptop. I've done this a lot, and I generally know how to do it so I don't hose one partition or another. But I slightly hosed something on the laptop last night.
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This week at LWN: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

10/06/2008  
Relevance: 7.21
At the Linux Plumbers Conference Thursday, Arjan van de Ven, Linux developer at Intel and author of PowerTOP, and Auke Kok, another Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, demonstrated a Linux system booting in five seconds. The hardware was an Asus EEE PC, which has solid-state storage, and the two developers beat the five second mark with two software loads: one modified Fedora and one modified Moblin. They had to hold up the EEE PC for the audience, since the time required to finish booting was less than the time needed for the projector to sync.
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Booting Linux in Less Than 40 Seconds

02/10/2008  
Relevance: 7.14
Have you ever dreamt about booting Linux in less than one minute? Now this dream can come true: in less than 40 seconds after pressing the power button, you will have a perfect fully-functional operating system, exactly as you left the last session. Even better than you thought, right? Now you could say:"Crazy boy - I don't believe you!" Well then, check it out for yourself.
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Dual-booting Vista and Linux

01/27/2007  
Relevance: 6.56
In Part 1 of this series, DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols prepared a system for use in comparing the features and performance of Windows Vista with Linux. In this second segment, our fearless curmudgeon installs the two operating systems and configures the resulting system for dual-booting, using the GRUB bootloader.
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Dell laptops include instant-on Linux

08/16/2008  
Relevance: 6.39
Dell yesterday announced a brand new range of laptops ranging from ultra-portables to high-end desktop replacement machines. The really interesting news for Linux fans, however, was Dell’s new “Latitude ON” system which allows for almost instant-on booting when you want to check an email or something on the Internet without booting the entire operating system.
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BIOS vendor promises simultaneous Linux, Windows sessions

11/08/2008  
Relevance: 6.15
BIOS giant Phoenix Technologies will ship a fast-booting, power-sipping, Linux-based environment equipped with Opera Software's embedded browser, the companies announced. Due in January, and targeting"mobile PCs," Phoenix's"HyperSpace" product promises"instant-on" Internet access on mobile PCs, while the primary OS is booting, running, or shutting down, Phoenix says.
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Lightweight GNOME alternative emerges

08/07/2008  
Relevance: 6.10
A fast, fast-booting, implementation of GNOME aimed at netbooks and older hardware has emerged, and shows"a lot of promise." LXDE has already stacked up a heap of distribution partners. The LXDE project has released its lightweight Linux desktop for general use. Built into the latest gOS 3 Gadget distro, LXDE is touted as being fast, fast-booting, compatible with old computers, and designed so that"every component can be used without LXDE," say the developers.
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Parallelize Application for Faster Linux Booting

03/13/2007  
Relevance: 6.03
Linux can serve as a client desktop or server right out of the box, a flexibility that slows its booting process. This article shows you options toincrease the speed with which Linux boots, including two options for parallelizing the initialization process. It also shows you how to visualize graphically the performance of the boot process.
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Xen Fullvirt Direct Kernel Boot

03/03/2008  
Relevance: 6.00
In all prior Fedora releases fullyvirtualized Xen guests had to boot via the QEMU BIOS. This means booting from a CDROM, harddisk, or Network PXE. Paravirtualized guests could always boot directly from a kernel and initrd. This allowed for fully automated guest installation since it allowed the tools to pass arguments straight into anaconda. KVM fullyvirtualized guests also support direct kernel booting.
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Getting around Windows Activation when Virtualizing

07/12/2007  
Relevance: 5.94
When I first setup my VMware Server to run an existing Windows Install from a physical partition, I was asked to reactivate Windows XP before I could use it as a guest OS. I received a lot of complaints from people saying that they were then again asked to reactivate Windows again once they booted back into Windows natively, and then again under VMware and so on every time the OS was booted in a different environment. If you replace the WPA files prior to booting based on whether you're using VMware or booting natively you won't have to reactivate. Here's how to do it.
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