The developers at Canonical, the company responsible for Ubuntu, have announced intentions to boot their Operating System in 10 seconds. The deadline for this goal is the April 2010 release, which has yet to receive a codename. From the 8.10 release to the 9.04 release, boot time was reduced from just over 1 minute to 25 seconds, proving that the developers are serious. This will be accomplished by optimizing the necessary aspects of the boot process. As an avid user of Ubuntu, this is an exciting development. However, since I only reboot about once per month I don't think I would be able to fully appreciate the improvements.