I've just been reading about Texas Flood. Don't know if anybody has heard of it. It's hard to find info on, especially since it seems to be a Brazilian project and all the info is in Portuguese. Via google translator I've found out that it seems to be some kind of high speed init replacement, they have a video showing off the speed improvement here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWAB9KSvpi0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWAB9KSvpi0</a> This seems to be the home: <a href="http://linuxhard.org/">http://linuxhard.org/</a> If it's stable, and doesn't have any unforeseen drawbacks, it might be something worth considering.