Re:For starters.. (Score 1)

you can do parallel loading of services at startup with gentoo and i am pretty sure with others (see /etc/conf.d/rc on gentoo)... and as for the X server stuff i am pretty sure they just use a generic vga driver... i am sure if you wanted to just run a vga driver for your X server you could figure something out to make that work... although it would be crap... the effort in getting a small version of X to load so you can see pretty progress bars with a vga driver is bad enough... and how do you propose to load a fully usable X (because that is what you want... to load X once) without loading all the system services that X needs (e.g. all the startup stuff whose progress you see in the purple bar inching across your crisp X window) ?