Thanks for all the reactions, below I'll react to the interesting ones:
-no I haven't timed this yett, but making gdm start before things like network, sendmail, anacron, cups, etc should really speed things up (i think). If there is genuine interest in this, which there seems to be I'll write some initial test patches.
-about the preload work / multithreaded patches. Those are real optmizations, which require lott of work and add a lott of complexity, thats not what this is about. Havoc understands what I want todo, this is not about actually speeding up the boot process, this is about giving the user soemthing to laak at /type in ASAP, and then start things like networking, cups etc after this.
Regards,
Hans
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