Video if anyone wants it: http://free-electrons.com/pub/video/2010/elce/elce2010-murra...

I previously worked for a company which sold a router and we could have used the advice of someone like this. (Our boot was 10-20 seconds at least.)

I also wonder if I could get my desktop linux down to those times.

If I boot a recent Ubuntu from EFISTUB or from a loader like rEFInd, I can get the boot time down to ~6 seconds on a desktop with a reasonable SSD.

GRUB can be surprisingly slow at times.

See also https://lwn.net/Articles/299483/, but it's out of date.

Thought the link looked familiar - I've applied the lessons gleaned in a project, and even wrote a comment about the experience earlier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656320 for the comment in question. Qt + embedded linux + 3D acceleration + IVI combines to a rather tricky engineering problem.

I thought SystemD fixed this issue already, among its other 100+ nice take-over-the-world things.

Recently I had to take on systemd on debian8, man it's complicated, should we still call it an 'init' component in the linux ecosystem, assume it cares?