Get Speed-Booting with an Open BIOS

An anonymous reader writes to mention that IBM Developer Works has a quick look at some of the different projects that are working on replacing proprietary BIOS systems with streamlined code that can load a Linux kernel much faster. Most of the existing BIOS systems tend to have a lot of legacy support built in for various things, and projects like LinuxBIOS and OpenBIOS are working to trim the fat.

To save time:

[seebs]

No, I don't know that much about what's happened in the field in the year and a month or so since this article went up, a month or so after I wrote it. I've been busy.

Speed booting???

[gstoddart]

Speed boot: (noun) What we water ski behind in Canada.

Thanks, I'm here all week. Try the veal. :-P

Re:Flash drives

[rucs_hack]

All you C64 people, grr.

My spectrum was awesome, and by dint of the fact that I couldn't afford a C64 (or even a Vic 20), I opted for the '48k ZX spectrum beats your computer any day' line of reasoning, and affected temporary blindness when anyone started showing off sprites.

Ah yes, the hours of tapping away on a rubber keyboard. Hungry Horace, oh how many evenings you ate.

I took it out of storage and showed my son last year. He looked at it in a puzzled fashion and asked where the dvd drive was.

Crying is not manly, so I just mumbled and put it away again..