Speeding Linux Boot with make!

James Hunt is obviously an out of the box thinker from IBM - he has written this article on a neat idea of his to build a new startup process using make.

Sounds dumb, but think of it - gnu makefiles allow us to very simply define dependancies, and parallelize execution based on these dependencies.

Worth a read if you like that sort of geekiness, or if you are designing a custom corporate build and halving the boot time will make you popular...