It's not a question of being "locked away", its a question of how it works. It works because its implemented as an extension of the BIOS, contained in a flash ROM, out of which it runs. It does not even have to wait for the harddisk to spin up (which can take several seconds), let alone does it need to load itself into memory. Also it does not have to do extensive device detection, because it is written for ONE specific hardware platform, it only needs to check the RAM, then turn on the video card, while it runs directly from FLASH. That is the only way to bring the "boot time" into the 6 to 8 seconds realm (currently the unoptimized version boots in about double that, but I think it can boot much faster than even that) I suspect it will be when finished, as Splashtop also takes about that amount of time to run too. If there will be a version that runs from say a small disk partition, the boot time will be much longer, as spinning up a hard- disk and loading the 500MB or so that is needed into RAM will take longer, but maybe with a solid state based device like a netbook it will be possible to boot almost as fast.
On 16 dec, 04:26, thegreyspot <[email protected]> wrote: > Completely agree. I know splashtop says it boots within 10 seconds or > so. Gos will take longer as far as I can tell. > > I am so excited for it to come out!! > > On Dec 15, 9:41 pm, Genjinaro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I hope not, that would suck. > > > Its bad enough others (Express Gate, Splashtop, etc.) are locked away > > like that. > > > On Dec 15, 9:10 pm, thegreyspot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > So does that mean that it wont be available for most computer? Or just > > > for certain motherboards? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
