I admit, faster boot speeds matter... rarely.  Especially when we are talking seconds, here.  For me, 18.

Realistically, 18 seconds is a darn short time.  And I spend almost 30 minutes obtaining those repititious 18 seconds.  So the payback will take a while.

But all in all, quicker, faster, better, well, that works for me.  Seems better all the way.

With that said, I came across this article the other day, and just got to implement it.

http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090927065836306/UbuntuTips-Booting-Part1.html

The good part, is it isn't too hard to figure out if this will work for your machine and whatever blend of Linux you run.  All in all, cheap, better performance.  And I pick and chose.  I've been a fan of the gnome for way too long. To me, it's like Firefox.  Sure, as he's getting older, the fox is growing more around the middle, but I still love the looks and so I'm sticking with it for now.  Same for Gnome desktop.

But even picking and choosing, you can likely get similar speed up of the boot times, and not change a single thing you see and do.  Just losing th background that you don't do.

see you on the web.

ezsurfer