Preloading [WAS: Re: SuSE Project SUPER]

[Linus Walleij]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> That wont help the critical first impression phase..

Agreed, what "other" OS:es (Vista, MacOS X) do is to come pre-installed, 
i.e. it was booted once by a technician out of sight of the user. Then
they leverage on that.

They are of course doing much more agressive things than simple 
preloading, more like suspend-to-disk, so the user actually more or less 
resumes a pre-booted image customized for that machine at "boot" time.

I wonder if we could do that.

Linus