OpenSuse 10.3 Beta 1 with improved boot time

OpenSuse 10.3 Beta 1 was released recently. Now first results of the boot time improvements are available.

Earlier this year OpenSuse’s Boot Time group was formed to improve the boot time of future OpenSuse versions. Quite soon they developed the plan to not rework the basic system like Ubuntu does it with Upstart but to introduce parallelization and improved scripts. And the results look pretty nice: with 27 seconds instead of 55 seconds OpenSuse now boots almost twice as fast as previous versions. Stephan Kulow, one of the main forces behind this development, said that main time improvements were done by dropping zmd, moving the firewall configuration to the time were you really need it and improved pre-load lists: I also optimized the preload lists so that we only preload stuff that specifically improves the boot time However, future improvements will only be able with non-trivial changes because all trivial things are done by now. The next step will be to...