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Starting up a Linux kernel to host one single process rather than a full on operating system ... and doing it in less than a second!

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Boot Naked Linux

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When I was a kid , computers weren’t coddled and left running 24/7, when you were done with them you switched them off, and when you wanted them again you just switched them on and within a second or so they’d be loading whatever was in their disk drive.