Let's do the math. One million users running WIN-10 software waiting say 2 minutes for usable desktop ready to perform. That's 2 million minutes. Or 33,333..333 hours or 4,166.666 days or 11.4 man-years of wasted time.
Do you think we can send an invoice to Bill Gates? John > -----Original Message----- > From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber > Sent: May-25-21 9:05 AM > To: Beagleboard > Subject: [beagleboard] Re: Reducing Boottime in Beaglebone Black > > On Mon, 24 May 2021 15:36:54 -0700, in gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user > "John Dammeyer" <johnd-5o6ditlojsohvde0pjs...@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > >I will state that waiting over two minutes for a Beagle to boot into Linux > >desktop mouse/keyboard/screen is unacceptable. Windows > with a 640K 8088 or a Pentium-33MHz could create a graphical desktop way > faster than a 1GHz Beagle with super fast SD card and > 512MB of ram. From an end user perspective anything longer than 10 to 15 > seconds just means it's not done right. > > WfW barely qualified as a desktop. It was more of an application > manager running on top of MS-DOS. > > My current desktop machine: 3.4GHz Intel i7-3770 with 12GB of RAM and > Windows 10, from a shutdown state took: > > 1:15 to reach the blue four-windows logo > 2:00 to reach the Windows boot chime > 2:25 to get to the login screen (and since my default user doesn't have a > password...) > 2:55 to get to user desktop -- it was still loading various services for a > few more minutes after that > > > > >So I'd like to pose the question back to the original poster of this thread > >karry.jaiswal-Re5JQEeQqe9fmgfxC/sS/w...@public.gmane.org > Why are you using a Beagle if you need fast boot times? What is it that the > Beagle Green has that you need compared to something > with an RTOS (Free RTOS for example). Why Linux? > > > > > >And with respect to University days I'll deny I ever took Fortran or Cobal > >courses......... > > > It shows... <G> > > COBOL COmmon Business Oriented Language > COBAL Generic Name: cyanocobalamin (vitamin b-12) > > > -- > Dennis L Bieber > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/jh7qagtbnnusf9aet6khtpo7aqarjqug94%404ax.com. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/01bc01d75186%241e46e870%245ad4b950%24%40autoartisans.com.
