On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 00:06, Raúl Moratalla wrote: > Will Fedora core 2 parallelize linux system services to improve boot > speed? I think that the latest version of Mandrake is doing it, and it > boots very fast. Are you referring to Serel http://www.fastboot.org/ This graphs the dependencies between the init scripts on the first run, then starts the ones which don't depend in parallel. I did a bit of testing with this a couple of years ago, and decided it wasn't worth the complexity. From the webpage, it looks a dead project. A quick search turns up a discussion on this list: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2003-July/msg00536.html