Author: Simon Reap Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Re: Eee 900
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 08:21 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote: >
> Simon Reap (work) wrote:
> > Jim Kissel wrote:
> >> 42 seconds to boot! What OS are you running? My un=moded 701 boots
> >> Xandros in about 20 seconds.
> > Xandros, but I've added quite a lot to it, and 2GB of ram, with the
> > modified kernel which recognises the 2GB. It's *almost* long enough to
> > make me go back to the "Easy" interface, which I remember as being
> > blindingly fast to start up.
>
> What moved you to install 2GB of ram? No criticism implied. I'm just
> trying to understand why why people feel the need to upgrade this "we
> little beastie".
Because I'm an inveterate fiddler, and because I could, I think! I'm
not sure that this has slowed down startup - I still get 42 seconds when
I use the 1GB kernel (the original one), and I didn't notice a great
slowdown when I installed the RAM.
