>> I am hearing much good from the gentoo camp about paralell startup, and >> how it brings down boot times to about 30 secounds. Is this possible to >> do with fedora as well? > >Gentoo, instead of numeric order of service startup which we have in >fedora, implements service dependencies. With dependencies it is pure >implementation detail to have system startup in parallel. > >I doubt if anyone with @redhat.com suffix will consider reworking >initscripts to mind service dependencies ... sure sounds like a job for makefile. even with numbered tasks it should be possible to construct a makefile that would handle it. indeed, i believe pmake will handle the parallelization issues. Tim Daly