Phoronix: Linpus Linux To Launch QuickOS Next Week
DeviceVM's SplashTop Linux environment (which we were the first to exclusively share) really was revolutionary in pushing the "instant-on Linux" theme as it was able to boot to its desktop in just a few seconds. Since then we have seen the emergence of Phoenix HyperSpace and other products that target netbooks with near instant-on capabilities. Traditional Linux distributions have also been focusing on improving the start-up time such as Ubuntu, Mandriva with Speedboot, gOS on a new quick-boot OS, and many others...
I did not see how fast it could boot. I only got a test cd from CeBIT but that did not work correctly on real hd. Installer ran an Intel G31 board, but was not able to boot. Maybe only running on Atom, no idea...