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Re: [LUG] Bios replacement will result in much faster boot times - which will be nice :-)

 

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Simon Williams
<simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/10/10 23:38, Julian Hall wrote:
>>
>> On 04/10/2010 23:13, Roland Tarver wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/technology-11430069?SThisFB
>>>
>>> According to the above 2011 will be the year of faster boot times (not
>>> the linux desktop - sorry lol). An update to the way the bios works
>>> (totally new method) should result in much faster boot time.
>
> YEY. And faster boot time is just the start...

Ooo - what else is happening?

>> According to a friend it's going to include the Trusted Computing
>> platform so will only play with Windows. How true that is I don't know.
>
> I thought trusted computing was dead. I sure hope it is.
>
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Roly :-)

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