The graph of engineering effort against boot time would rapidly ... it never exits in the traditional manner that a function call usually does. Improving Linux boot time is moving from the obscure ...

Linux systems already boot relatively fast, but it's never fast enough. So, when Linux engineer Colin Ian King (via Phoronix) discovered that aligning the slab in the ACPI code would make Linux ...

Linux: Whether your computer already boots pretty quickly or you're trying to eke some extra spee dout of your old computer, free command line tool E4rat will seriously decrease your boot time.

I’m not the most informed guy on Linux boot processes ... boots), and you’d be surprised how much time can be saved by customizing the boot process based on what the machine does and doesn ...

One especially important aspect of Intel's platform improvement agenda is to reduce overall startup time ... Boot performance improvements of that magnitude would surely boost Linux's viability ...

For purposes of this discussion, I consider "boot" time to be the elapsed time from when I press return in the GRUB boot menu, until a login window appears and is usable. Written by J.A. Watson ...

“MontaVista’s achievement of one second Linux boot time on Freescale processors based on Power Architecture® technology is a significant achievement. Industrial embedded real-time ...