speeding up booting

[John Gilmore]

> How about bundling them up and attaching them to the "Improve Startup 
> Speed" ticket http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4349 .  That way all the 
> research that nobody does anything about because it diverges too much 
> from the blessed Fedora will all be in one place.

One of Fedora 11's features is supposed to be "20 second startup":

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/20SecondStartup

They're only 10% done.  A few days of collaboration with the related
OLPC work should help push them toward completion.

	John