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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Indeed, Fedora do a lot of valuable work in the area. Everything is ultimately a collaboration, that's how open source works (ideally).
Of course, Xandros had a super-fast-boot system tailored to the Eee hardware before Arjan's work - it's what comes with the Eee. Claudio Matsuoka has been working on reimplementing, improving and extending Xandros's system since early this year, as the finit project: http://helllabs.org/finit/ .