Linked by David Adams on Mon 29th Sep 2008 02:58 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva has done quite a lot of work on optimizing boot speed for its latest release, Mandriva Linux 2009. Frederic Crozat (head of the French engineering team) has written a blog post summarizing Mandriva's past work on this front, and the tweaks and improvements made for 2009. It shows that close analysis of inefficiencies in boot, and fixing 'small' bugs, can result in gains as large or larger than 'big picture' items like new initialization systems.
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Red Hat is amoung the largest desktop contributors including the #1 contributor to Xorg and many of the freedesktop.org components.
Even if you read this article, bootchart, preload, readahead and other major components come from work done within Fedora. Arjan's original work to demonstrate boot speedup was done within Fedora and there is some development changes made already in view of that.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-kernel-list/2008-September/ms...