[Halfmanhalfamazing]

The headline is a bit misleading.

All OS have a multi phase booting cycle.

This only reduces the speed of the init phase of the booting cycle.

But typically, in a lot of modern linux distros system booting is very quick. It takes longer to get from login screen to desktop in many cases than it does to get from power=off to login screen.

But GUI initialization is being sped up too. See:

http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2012/04/improving-kwin-startup-performance/

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Clickable link:

http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2012/04/improving-kwin-startup-performance/

[re_nortex]

But typically, in a lot of modern linux distros system booting is very quick.

It takes ma a while to get out of my comfort zone. I rebelled when GRUB came along since I was so accustomed to LILO. Now I look back and wonder what I was thinking by clinging to the familiar for so long.

I'm undergoing the same transition now as I get used to the new approach since the SysV init scripts were what I had been use to for so very long. Progress is disruptive and, for me, sometimes painful. But I can already see the benefits of the new way of launching services. It's not only faster but less brittle than the serialized order of the startup symlinks.

[ShadowAce]

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Very interesting - thanks for this. Just proves once again what a force Linux in general (and I claim Fedora/Red Hat in particular) is to keep pushing the envelope in all areas. I think any one innovation is not necessarily a game changer but all the innovations taken together do end up changing the game!

[zeugma]

I don't really get systemd. It's something that I've spent a little time looking at, but it is such a huge change from the standard init process, that I haven't really wrapped my head around it yet. As of the moment, I don't particularly care for it, because it is just too different from every other unix out there in the world.