since there is no bios, I doubt this will take very long to boot at all. In fact boot time will mostly be determined by how many services you are starting at bootup. Yocto linux. I imagine most applications of this device will start ssh, maybe a web server, or an otherwise custom developed service for the specific application. The bootloader may have a few seconds delay to allow you to interrupt it and change params.

How long doe it take to load a kernel and initrd from flash, unpack and execute?

Not everything needs video out. Especially in embedded applications. For example, does you router have video out? how about your toaster?

plus routing RF is not for the new at board routing, antenna, and component selection.

plus a wifi radio and a Bluetooth radio

mod parent up. this is an important point for Microsoft shops.
changing your internal Active directory structure from company.local to ad.company.com is a major pain and error prone.

Exchange is a big reason for getting a certificate that contains internal domains.
You get a single UCC Certificate that contains mail.domain.com and mail.company.local
first result from google for UCC cert
http://support.godaddy.com/hel...

you have 52 senators representing you?

No! Secureboot is required for Windows RT

Sorry AC. You might be right, but you've spewed so much crap over the years I just cant believe you. 30

IPMI is primarily used on sever hardware. Power On/Off, Serial over Lan, basic management stuff.

AMT/VPro is a useful tool in an enterprise environment.
As another person said, a laptop does not keep its wifi powered up while it is off.

So NASA Should Change it's name to U.S.A.?

USA Space Agency?

Unfortunately MS-Access is (ab)used in so many other way. Data entry forms, reports, labels, etc. It is not about the database only stuff. Not every company has time to update all their legacy systems. Trends change, things come and go. If you were starting fresh today, you would make very different choices than 15 years ago.

Thank you for a reasonable sentiment. slashdot is driving me crazy.

The real world is messy. You can't always update everything. You understand this, but other do not.

I have to maintain a Frankenstein PC that interfaces to a multi-million dollar piece of manufacturing equipment. So backups of the hard drives, spare motherboards, CPUs, memory, IDE Hard drives, and other things. This computer is 8 years old, with an expected life of another 7. Yuck!
Thankfully its network connection goes to 1 thing and 1 thing only! The PLC. Am I worried about a virus? No. My concern is hardware failing. If someone plugged a malicious USB drive in, then the machine will just be restored to a known good point.

what are you going to transmit with?

http://gitlab.org/