On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 11:09 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
You might looking into doing some sort of suspend-to-disk if you want faster startups, but changing distros will probably give you the best speed-up for the least cost and effort.
The two packages you would need installed to do this would be uswusp and gnome-power-manager. Additionally, you need to pass the name of the swap partition to the resume= parameter on the kernel boot line.
Gnome Power Manager calls out to uswusp to actually dumpt the contents of RAM to disk. Subsequently, the contents are reloaded from the swap partition on reboot.
Note that a great deal of effort is still going in to this frame work to make it as seamless as possible so do not expect it to actually work with your particular hardware as of yet.