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<p>Hi,<br></p>
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<p>No offence but I would guess most people don't boot their devices very often. It would be nice to have faster boot times but I rarely boot my device. Just an opinion. I hope it's helpful.<br></p>
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<p>Frank<br></p>
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<p>Hi there,<br></p>
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<p>I'm Magnus Deininger, aka jyujin, head of the eINIT project, a~nd I'd <br></p>
<p>like help the maemo project by improving bootup times. One of my <br></p>
<p>friends is telling me that maemo devices are booting 'unbearably slow' <br></p>
<p>and that this would be quite the complaint with customers; he's going <br></p>
<p>so far as to offer his Nokia 770 for the cause if i can make it boot <br></p>
<p>faster.<br></p>
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<p>My pet project (eINIT, http://einit.org) is currently doing reasonably <br></p>
<p>well at making computers boot faster, but we haven't tried to make it <br></p>
<p>work on too many embedded devices just yet, mostly because we're a bit <br></p>
<p>tight on devs and time... and people that would be interested in <br></p>
<p>seeing it on their embedded device. We're still doing quite the <br></p>
<p>progress in boot times tho, as could be seen by this little video <br></p>
<p>(taken by that friend of mine who'd like to see his nokia 770 boot <br></p>
<p>faster): <br></p>
<p>http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2744120711983143659 . <br></p>
<p>That's booting fairly fast, especially considering it boots right into <br></p>
<p>compiz... I also made this bootchart: http://omploader.org/vZHdj -- <br></p>
<p>which is on my main desktop, without any real optimisations. Both <br></p>
<p>boxes (the one in the video, and mine) used to boot in about 1 to 1:20 <br></p>
<p>minutes before, so that's /quite/ an improvement right there.<br></p>
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<p>Now seeing as my friend has some issues with his device, I'd like to <br></p>
<p>help him, and the maemo project, but since I'm a bit tight on time, <br></p>
<p>I'd first like to know if anyone else is actually interested in me <br></p>
<p>porting eINIT to maemo, since I'd hate setting up a devel environment <br></p>
<p>for a single device ;). Which brings me to why I'm posting on this ML <br></p>
<p>in the first place: I'd like to know if people /are/ interested in <br></p>
<p>this or not. Just get right back at me if there's any interest. I'll <br></p>
<p>monitor this ML for the time being, and I'd also like to invite any <br></p>
<p>interested developers to join our IRC channel, #einit on freenode.<br></p>
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<p>So, that concludes my offer I think.<br></p>
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<p>Greets, and happy hacking,<br></p>
<p>Magnus Deininger<br></p>
<p>http://einit.org/<br></p>
<p>IRC: jyujin on freenode; #einit<br></p>
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<p>PS.: Oh, not to forget, eINIT is BSD-licenced, so there shouldn't be <br></p>
<p>any weird licencing issues from a business POV either, if that would <br></p>
<p>ever be an issue.<br></p>
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