LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

Any serious effort to bring down boot times will inevitably scrutinise each and every daemon and service started and likely do away with a few less essential ones. As a side-effect, that may very well make a system use less resources and be more stable and secure once the system has been brought up.

I also believe that faster boots give us happier and more productive kernel hackers, because they reboot more often than anyone else. That alone makes it worth the trouble.