No offense to the great work that owners have done with the empeg but I don't want to run anything that slows boot-up time. This IS first and foremost a car stereo. I'll run display server when I have it in the office but I need this thing to perform best when I have it in the car. I put my faith in kernels compiled by empeg itself. That's why I bought it. It's a consumer product.

If you only have a single drive empeg, I actually have a kernel on my empeg site for 1.03 that makes it boot even faster then the one from empeg

I do agree, boot time has become one of my priorities as well, so I have a very streamlined init structure. Home boot takes about twice as long due to all the stuff I do when in the house compaired to the car. My next goal is to keep my voladj adjusting capabilities, while elliminating the picker on startup. Once I finish a web project here at work, I'll start work on this project.