I can report the good news that on Fedora 13 (ie. non-broken kernel)
this patch and the updated febootstrap reduces the boot time below the
magic number:
real 0m4.954s
user 0m2.117s
sys 0m1.739s
(Unfortunately the times are not as good with the broken kernel
2.6.35, because even with the much smaller -kernel and -initrd
qemu-kvm takes many seconds to start up).
Rich.
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Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
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Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#)
http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora