Which Distro has the fastest boot time?

As the title which Linux has the fastest boot time? Anything faster than 10 Sec is worth to mention.
However, I do want a few thing out of it. I would like some kind of GUI, Web browser, Music Player of some kind, and a good Text editor, along with some CLI software.
I am working on a project on my computer, which allow me dual boot directly from a CF card with a IDE to CF adapter or load it into my powerful OS(Arch Linux). For the most part, you just want to do a quick E mail check before you leave the house. And you don't want the computer on for like 8 hours sitting there doing nothing but waste energy. So I think it would be a good idea to do so. Due to the limitation of my case, I can only have one hard drive. And I don't want to use that one drive to dual boot my computer.
I am really looking in something that only need a few seconds.
hehe Thanks

Faunos has a nice "live" OS that boots to KDE with archlinux packages (600) and can boot in ~60 secs. It operates in ram which gives it a speedy performance.
I have it booting from a Compact flash UDMA device in an Intel based computer using either an IDE to CF or a sata to cf adapter, each powered by the normal FDD five volt connector.
The UDMA CF cards reach 45MB/sec read speed. When booting with the CF cards into a "live" system, there are no writes until the user desires to "save session" to an overlay. To avoid writing to the boot device, an alternate device can be used via USB, for example, to retain the desired packages in a repo.
Faster ram will speed the boot process. Also, if one uses a repo device(another CF for example) much of the boot package load can be placed in that repo for install as needed. This could reduce the boot time considerably.
In my system, I have a repo built from 2 CF cards in raid0 with 15+GB capacity and utilize bookmarks for loading packages from the repo. This repo has 80+ mb/s speed.
Perhaps this is of interest to you....Cfast is coming which will improve the read/write speed while in sataII to a probable 160MB/sec for a single Cfast card.
EDIT: If you boot to CLI, the boot time is reduced and e-mail is available.
Last edited by lilsirecho (2008-10-04 19:20:11)

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