jefurii - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I run Debian, and I run FreeBSD. (Score 1) 425

by jefurii on Monday April 06, 2009 @03:34PM (#27480047) Attached to: Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support

what's with the obsession with boot time? Can anyone explain why the free software community is so obsessed with this metric? ...Don't most people just sleep or hibernate their computer these days anyway?

You're right when it comes to servers or desktops, but for laptops it's a different story. Sleep or hibernate are often not supported by Linux on laptops, and given the increasing market share of laptops vs. desktop, boot time is something to pay attention to.

Submission + - Lightfleet all-to-all interconnect data (lightfleet.com)

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rossy

on Friday August 31, 2007 @07:02PM

rossy writes: "I stumbled across this site http://lightfleet.com/ and they reference a "rumored" Intel laser computer. Lightfleet is preparing to launch a all-to-all optical interconnect switch. This looks like it would be cool for supercomputer inter-node communication. I can think of some other cool applications as well. The idea of an optical computer or optical network IC from Intel is always fun."

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