Linux Boots Up In 2.97 Seconds

Just how fast does your operating system boot up? Most of us use Windows, and every single time we boot up Windows, we tend to spend at least a minute of our lives drumming our fingers on the desk or doing something equally worthless. Well, perhaps news of Linux-powered computer booting up within 2.97 seconds might move your heart to consider a switch? According to Lineo from Japan, this new technology is known as Warp 2 and comprises of a bootloader, a customised Linux software stack, and a ‘hibernation driver’ that is akin to familiar suspend-to-disk software. What sets this apart is Lineo’s hibernation driver writing a snapshot of RAM into its flash memory instead of to a hard disk, hence saving multiple alternative system snapshots for a (much) quicker boot up time.