on a side note its good to see the new boot times for Mandriva, hope a few more distros start looking at this too
///Snip while many distributions have been talking about speeding up the boot process, an area where no Linux distribution compares favourably with Microsoft Windows, it seems that the developers of Mandriva did not just talk - they simply did it! And the result? On our Pentium 4 test box with 384MB of RAM, Mandriva 2006 RC1 takes 23 seconds to boot into the console login prompt, and 52 seconds into full KDE (bypassing the KDM login screen)! This is a remarkable achievement when compared to SUSE Linux 10.0 RC1, which takes 108 seconds to boot into KDE, or Fedora Core, which needs 76 seconds to boot into GNOME on the same system. Snip///
From Planet GNOME today: a Google Summer of Code project to reduce GNOME startup time (draft): http://www.gnome.org/~lcolitti/gnome-startup/analysis/
Craig