On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 20:02 +0000, peter green wrote:
What about an open sourced script that can do this feat? Everybody throws in their know how.
The problem is getting a fast boot time is really a matter of deciding what you can live without or at least start asyncronously after your main application has started, then ruthlessly optimising what is left for your specific case.
So the result is a system that boots to a specific application very quickly but may be horriblly broken if the application or hardware used changes.
Idea: (As a fan of Gambas I am led to believe its 1.5x faster than python.) So a gambas GUI program with lots of visual basic like scripts can cobble a workable configurable GUI per board and then you would just check a list of features that must work, and it goes off and creates an almighty bash script to hack a fresh install of Debian down to its minimal innards.