Multimedia PC with instant start-up launches
Barry Fox Jan 16 2004

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Instead of having to wait for Windows to boot, the technology allows
all a PC's entertainment functions - TV, DVD, CD, MP3, radio - to be
run on a pared-down version of the open-source Linux operating system,
called LinDVD.

Rather than sitting on a hard drive, LinDVD is small enough to be held
in a read-only memory chip and boots in 10 seconds flat.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994567