Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st Sep 2008 08:55 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Windows A common topic of discussion in the Windows world - in fact, in any operating system - is boot performance. Many systems take a long time to reach a usable desktop from the moment the power switch is pressed, and this can be quite annoying if it takes too long. In a post on the Engineering 7 blog, Michael Fortin, lead engineer of Microsoft's Fundamentals/Core Operating System Group, explains what Microsoft is doing to make Windows 7 boot faster.
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Fedora 10
by pxa270 on Mon 1st Sep 2008 11:24 UTC
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FWIW, Fedora is also actively working on this for the upcoming release of Fedora 10: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/30SecondStartup