Over the next week we plan to post a series of blogs that explore ten examples from around our community, of people making a difference to free software through their work in Fedora. These are just ten of the many reasons you’ll want to fire up Fedora 10 and take it for a spin on your system. We’ll dive into some of the cool features that have been developed in this release, as well as some of the advances that have spread throughout the Fedora community. We’ll show off the collaboration that happens between volunteer contributors and Red Hat’s engineering staff to advance free software. And you’ll see why Fedora leads the pack in providing the future first.

#1. Speeding Up the Boot Process

For quite some time, Fedora has been using the rhgb (Red Hat graphical boot) subsystem to provide a graphical progress screen for booting. Starting rhgb takes quite a bit of time, memory and disk activity. It requires numerous graphical user interface pieces to load just a few messages and a progress bar and slows down booting significantly. Needless to say, this situation didn’t sit will with some of the engineers from Red Hat’s Desktop team.

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