Somebody in the thread at some point said: > What are the minimum services that you need to load up at boot? > > Need a list so I can speed up my booting somewhat as it seems to me > that there are a load of stuff starting at boot that I really don't > need. There's no one answer to that. For example if you use smart cards then you need pcscd, if not: not. Only "you" know what "you" "need". You can list the possible services with chkconfig --list and there will be low hanging fruit for most people like isdn, which you can disable like this chkconfig isdn off -Andy