I never cared about bootup speed because I never turn my linux computer off, it almost never needs a reboot. My uptime monitor is reading 4 months right now, and thats only because of a power failure 4 months ago.
Still I'm glad to see someone addressed what many consider a problem.
This distro is making great progress into the desktop area, its probably the most popular distro now. I stick to vectorlinux because I grew up with it, but even I am considering switching because their repository of installable programs is ridiculous. If I switch, I will probably never have to compile or
fudge around to get anything I want installed and usable nearly instantly.
One thing I would say though is that its UGLY stock, Orange and brown yeech... I know, I know, you can customize it with thousands of themes, but that first impression is yeeech.
Steven