Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

søn, 03.04.2005 kl. 07.28 skrev dragoran:
> Paul wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >  
> >
> >>this is a question I receive froom some Fedora Core 3 users. After
> >>they have tried Ubuntu, they complained about the 'slow speed' of
> >>Fedora. Their major complain are the number of seriveces enabled by
> >>default event though they choose to do desktop installation. Another
> >>complain I heard are the memory on which they use Ubuntu (once again)
> >>to be efficient. How should I respend on that kind of question?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >It is possible by using parallel loading (there is a thing on the IBM
> >website, but it's not for the easily scared!).
> >
> >The thing you've got to remember with Ubuntu is that it really is a
> >minimal running Linux - if you stripped down the number of services FC
> >starts on power up to the same as Ubuntu, you'd find the boot up is
> >faster (not having to boot from CD).
> >
> >Currently, I've not got that many services running on either my laptop
> >or this PC and it's on the desktop ready for me to use in just shy of 90
> >seconds - which is much faster than Ubuntu!
> >
> >TTFN
> >
> >Paul
> >  
> >
> Parallel loading doen't help much. This have already been discussed in 
> the devel-list.

Yes there was a lot of talk about getting down boot time - but what did
come of it? It isn't listed as major goals for fc4 anymore - so will fc4
boot faster than fc3 did, or did this effort run out in the sand?

Kyrre