speeding up booting

[Mitch Bradley]

John Gilmore wrote:
>> 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
>   
I have zero confidence that the approach they are taking will be 
effective on XO.