[ Thanks to Idean for
this link. ]
“Although undoubtedly an excellent system, a common criticism of
Linux–voiced particularly by those from a Microsoft Windows
background–is that it takes a long time between pressing the ‘on’
button and actually being able to use a Linux system. In essence,
their argument goes, Linux takes a long time to boot.“Although simple to understand, the technique I present here for
speeding the boot process requires careful implementation; my hope
is that Linux distributions will adopt this technique and users
will be spared the configuration task. But if you’re feeling
adventurous, read on…”