LPC: Booting Linux in Five Seconds Oct 3, 2008, 18 :32 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5534 reads) (Other stories by Don Marti)
"And no cheating. "Done booting means CPU and disk idle," Arjan said. No fair putting up the desktop while still starting services behind the scenes. (An audience member pointed out that Microsoft does this.) The "done booting" time did not include bringing up the network, but did include starting NetworkManager. A system with a conventional hard disk will have to take longer to start up: Arjan said he has run the same load on a ThinkPad and achieved a 10-second boot time."
