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If you’re a veteran system administrator, you might remember an era of extremely expensive hard disk storage, when any serious network would have a beefy central file server (probably accessed using the Network File System, NFS) that formed the lifeblood of its operations. It was a well-loved feature as early as Linux kernel 2.0 that […]

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The race to fast boot times is on, with MontaVista making the latest headlines. The embedded Linux vendor announced in the United States Tuesday its latest system is able to boot in one second, and released a video demonstrating a vehicle dashboard system going from cold boot into a “fully operational” state in that time.
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