Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

[dragoran]

Paul wrote:

>Hi,
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>>this is a question I receive froom some Fedora Core 3 users. After
>>they have tried Ubuntu, they complained about the 'slow speed' of
>>Fedora. Their major complain are the number of seriveces enabled by
>>default event though they choose to do desktop installation. Another
>>complain I heard are the memory on which they use Ubuntu (once again)
>>to be efficient. How should I respend on that kind of question?
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>It is possible by using parallel loading (there is a thing on the IBM
>website, but it's not for the easily scared!).
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>The thing you've got to remember with Ubuntu is that it really is a
>minimal running Linux - if you stripped down the number of services FC
>starts on power up to the same as Ubuntu, you'd find the boot up is
>faster (not having to boot from CD).
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>Currently, I've not got that many services running on either my laptop
>or this PC and it's on the desktop ready for me to use in just shy of 90
>seconds - which is much faster than Ubuntu!
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>TTFN
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>Paul
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Parallel loading doen't help much. This have already been discussed in 
the devel-list.