A free article published on IBM's DeveloperWorks Web site by IBM software engineer James Hunt presents a technique for starting some system services in parallel to speed up boot time.

The article begins with a great explanation of the system of startup scripts used on most Linux systems, along with brief tutorials on the use of the chkconfig and service utilities for startup script management. It then describes how to re-purpose the make utility for managing dependencies between system services, and use make's -j flag for starting services in parallel when possible while still respecting those dependencies.

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