You can speed up the booting process a lot by disabling the services you do not need. Another advantage of disabling unwanted services is that you can free up a lot of RAM. Fedora has a utility to make this very easy. In other distros you will have to edit the files in /etc/init.d folder.
First run the ‘Service Configuration’ utility.
KMenu > Administration > Server Settings > Services Service Management
Or run ‘system-config-services’
Then disable all the services that you will not need. For more information on what to disable/enable here, go to Services in Fedora 7. That should give you an idea about which all service must be enabled.
List of all the enabled services on my system…
- ConsoleKig
- atd
- autofs
- cpuspeed
- crond
- haldaemon
- httpd
- iptables
- irqbalance
- kudzu
- lm_sensors
- Mussagebus
- mysqld
- nasd
- network
- readahead_early
- readahead_later
- smartd
- syslog
After all configuration is done, click ‘Save’. You will notice the difference on the next boot.