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Researchers at the Linux Plumbers Conference managed to trim the boot time for an SSD Eee PC from around 45 seconds down to a mere five seconds.

Technologic Systems is shipping a rugged WVGA touchpanel PC based on a fast-booting ARM9-based single board computer (SBC).

The TS-TPC-7390 Touch Panel Computer incorporates the Debian Linux-based TS-7390 SBC, which is equipped with a 200MHz ARM9 CPU from Cirrus and a Lattice FPGA (field-programmable gate array).