Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1745
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:30 AET-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600

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Friday 14 November 2008
 Number  1745
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Subjects for today
 
1   Warp in the news : Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
2  Re:  Warp in the news : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>

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Date:  Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:34:39 +1100 (EST)
From:  "Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
Subject:   Warp in the news

http://www.pcauthority dot com dot au/News/128117,linux-boots-in-297-seconds.aspx

Linux boots in 2.97 seconds

*Software engineers at Japan's embedded Linux software vendor Lineo
announced technology last week that can boot a low-power computer system
within 2.97 seconds, the company claims. *
Lineo calls its quick-start software system Warp 2, apparently either
never having heard of IBM's ill-fated and abandoned OS/2 Warp operating
system or not being particularly superstitious.

The company says Warp 2 consists of a bootloader, a customised Linux
software stack, and a 'hibernation driver' similar to familiar
suspend-to-disk software. Lineo's innovation is that its hibernation
driver writes a snapshot of RAM into flash memory instead of to a hard
disk.

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Voytek

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Date:  Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:17:24 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
Subject:  Re:  Warp in the news

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> http://www.pcauthority dot com dot au/News/128117,linux-boots-in-297-seconds.aspx
>
> Linux boots in 2.97 seconds
>
> *Software engineers at Japan's embedded Linux software vendor Lineo
> announced technology last week that can boot a low-power computer system
> within 2.97 seconds, the company claims. *
> Lineo calls its quick-start software system Warp 2, apparently either
> never having heard of IBM's ill-fated and abandoned OS/2 Warp operating
> system or not being particularly superstitious.
>
> The company says Warp 2 consists of a bootloader, a customised Linux
> software stack, and a 'hibernation driver' similar to familiar
> suspend-to-disk software. Lineo's innovation is that its hibernation
> driver writes a snapshot of RAM into flash memory instead of to a hard
> disk.
Hi Voytek,

I wonder why then they tagged on the "2"?
Have you looked at the following pages :

http://www.splashtop dot com/videos.php

Note on the "How it works" page it says:

When you press the power button or a special hot key designated by your 
PC manufacturer, Splashtop starts in seconds - it is the first screen 
that you will see.

Splashtop is preinstalled on the hard drive or in the on-board Flash 
memory of new PCs and motherboards by their manufacturers. Splashtop is 
a software-only solution that requires no additional hardware. A small 
component of Splashtop is embedded in the BIOS of the PC - that's the 
part that runs as soon as you press the power button.

Within Splashtop, you have the choice of running one of its 
applications, such as the Splashtop Web Browser, or booting your 
Operating System. Splashtop is /_compatible with any Operating System_/, 
including Windows and Linux.

Splashtop has similar networking capabilities to what you find in other 
Operating Systems. It can connect to networks over WiFi, LAN, xDSL, and 
cable. WEP, WPA, and WPA2 wireless security standards are supported.

(specifically the bit enhanced[?] above between slashes)

Regards,
Mike

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