On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 08:15:06 +0100 "Colin Brace" <cb@xxxxxx> wrote: > Also new in the startup and shutdown process of Fedora will be the > upstart daemon, which will replace System-V init. > > Maybe this will Fedora boot more quickly? Perhaps, but when I look at the boot times, it seems to spend most of it doing the initrd processing, which will still happen before everything else.