Interesting article on boot ordering

[Bill Nottingham]

Havoc Pennington (hp at redhat.com) said: 
>  - almost as useful though, getting to a login prompt as soon as  
>      possible; so if we can continue some stuff in the background 
>      while the user logs in, that's almost the same as just getting
>      rid of it from a timing standpoint

It depends. There's certainly previous expectations that everything
will be 'working' when you finally log in.

Of course, the current login and desktop starting process is slow enough
that that won't be a problem. 

Bill