I understand that many people have considerations regarding boot times and other performance oriented metrics.
I’ve picked up a boot chart for my machine which is normal VAIO with very normal components running openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) with minor modifications. I’ve disabled some services I don’t use (I could disable a few more), and I’m also loading strange things like (indicator-applet and friends) which are mainly the Ubuntu interface indicators that I’m working on for openSUSE (GNOME:Ayatana)…
Here’s my bootchart with 45 secs (No I’m not optimizing my system), just sharing it to try and see if this is normal or not very normal 