On 25/09/2015 11:27, KatolaZ wrote:
I actually had the impression that servers was what Laurent was referring to... :)
Was I? It's possible. I usually refer to servers because it's the environment I'm used to; but what I'm saying about boot times, parallelism and so on is also true for clients, or any kind of machines really. I think it's a mistake to say "Boot times do not matter". Additionally to embedded systems, which I've already written about, virtual machines are now ubiquitous. There are several projects now that boot Linux in a Javascript virtual machine, in your browser. I've just used one today: http://linsam.homelinux.com/extra/s6-altsim/jor1k/demos/s6-rc.html Lots of companies are now moving their production environments to Docker containers, which are easier to host and manage than physical machines. And yes, mobile computing - the future of client machines is the phone, not the PC, with wildly different user demographics and habits. Boot times may not matter to you, on your desktop PC, because you can make yourself a coffee while your machine boots. It may not matter to the NOC person managing real servers, because while one machine is booting, there are a hundred others already serving. But boot times do matter for the person powering up an Internet box, a VR machine or any "smart thing". They matter for the person whipping up a complete OS in a Javascript VM, or booting a container, or a phone. They will matter in tomorrow's uses of Linux that we can't even foresee today. -- Laurent _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng