[TriLUG] Speeding up the boot process of a Linux box

[Jeremy Portzer]

jonc at nc.rr.com wrote:
> Interesting article. Well written:
> 
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-boot-faster/index.html?
> ca=dgr-lnxw01FC-FastLinuxBoot
> 
> One of the biggest complaints about Linux®, particularly from 
> developers, is the speed with which Linux boots. By default, Linux is 
> a general-purpose operating system that can serve as a client desktop 
> or server right out of the box. Because of this flexibility, Linux 
> serves a wide base but is suboptimal for any particular configuration. 
> This article shows you options to increase the speed with which Linux 
> boots, including two options for parallelizing the initialization 
> process. It also shows you how to visualize graphically the 
> performance of the boot process. 
> 

These articles always make me wonder why people are rebooting so often?
For desktops, UPSes are cheap nowadays, and power is pretty reliable 
(and cheap) most places.  And suspend/hibernate options for laptops 
generally work pretty well in Linux (with notable exceptions of course). 
  Why are people rebooting so much that any of this is worth spending 
time on?

--Jeremy