Oke, i did some more testing now and i got GDM to boot up way quicker than ever before. (on fedora and in my experience) in /etc/event.d/prefdm i commented out all lines so that i can control everything myself in a init script. In /etc/rc5/d i added a script with the name: S27startgdm (chmod to 777) with this as the content: (don't know if it's all good but works) #!/bin/sh case "$1" in start) exec /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon ;; stop) ;; *) echo "Usage: $(basename $0) <start|stop>" ;; esac Try it out yourself! Now to speed up things more you can do a few other things which i will also all test out 1. Add preload (just added here) 2. disable services that you don't use 3. customize the kernel for your needs only (advanced stuff) For No. 3 that is a hard one which i'm gonna try to do now.. most speedups can likely be gained in there because the kernel is taking up a lot of time at boot and udev than hooks in a lot of stuff in the kernel. If you build all the modules in that udev includes than you get a lot speedups there. This is getting more interesting by the minute ^_^ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list