Quick Boot Linux Hopes To Win Over Windows Users

Al writes "A company called Presto hopes to exploit the painful amount of time it takes for Windows computers to start up by offering a streamlined version of Linux that boots in just seconds. Presto's distro comes with Firefox, Skype and other goodies pre-installed and the company has also created an app store so that users can install only what they really need. The software was demonstrated at this year's Demo conference in Palm Desert, CA. Interestingly, the company barely mentions the name Linux on its website. Is this a clever stealth-marketing ploy for converting Windows users to Linux?"

Re:Who reboots?

[RMH101]

Bet your battery life sucks, though.

It's a joke, laugh

Re:Boot Time is the least of the pain.

[Vectronic]

"If you had looked at the site for about 45 seconds..."

Who has time for that?... Apparently 30 seconds is too long to boot a computer these days, who has 45 seconds for reading?

Someone should build a site called 'Presume', which strips out 2/3rds of the words, knock the reading time down to 15 seconds.

Re:Xandros

[Workaphobia]

Man, the lengths some people will go to to not read the article.

Re:Who reboots?

[George Beech]

No no ... i have great battery life, i get a full 2 mins and 42 seconds ! you can't beat that!

Re:Hibernation?

[jetsci]

Back breaking? I carry around a 17" HP DV9000 fully loaded laptop and barely notice it. Perhaps you should get some exercise. Certainly beats carrying around my old kit, 70lbs ruck-sack, 16lbs rifle, and ammo. Sissy.

Re:Hibernation?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hah.

We'll start reading the summaries after the editors actually begin to check and proofread them. Until then, you must be new here.

Re:Hibernation?

[sunking2]

Must be zombie immigrants that I see actually doing work :) I guess that road sign was right!

Re:Hibernation?

[wastedlife]

Did you just insinuate that Anonymous Coward is new here? That guy has been here forever!

Oh, wait...

Re:Hibernation?

[ender06]

Many of my coworkers running Ubuntu (and I've occasionally seen this with XP also) can't reliably sleep and wake without crashing.

I read that as "Many of my coworkers can't reliably sleep and wake without crashing." I thought sleeping wasn't allowed at work. Can I have their job?

Re:Hibernation?

[GMFTatsujin]

I'm much the same way.

No, not my laptop. Me.

Re:Hibernation?

[Ihmhi]

You turn your computer off?

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Re:Easier to DIY...

[Kalriath]

If they haven't "cracked [microsoft.com]" the protocol by now, they aren't going to.