IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:34 PM -0300 Ben Steeves 
<ben.steeves at gmail.com> wrote:

> Knuth spoke of avoiding "premature optimization" (as mentioned
> elsewhere in this thread) but an equally dangerous sink for
> productivity can be spending developer time on fixing symptoms when it
> would be better to cure the root problem instead.

Good point. Ultimately the objective is to make Linux "appliance-like" with 
instant-on, at least perceptually.