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/ .
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contrib...
"Intel was by far the biggest contributor with over 13% of the commits."
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Phoronix article talks about a single release. I am referring to a much longer cycle.
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html
More details at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions
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Nope. Ubuntu didn't even exist when bootchart was created.
http://bootchart.sourceforge.net/
"The project started as a response to a challenge posted by Owen Taylor on the Fedora development mailing list"
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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...