System =
Duron 1200
ECS K7S5A Pro Motherboard
256MB DDR
40 Gig Maxtor
10X4X24 HP 9300 CDRW Drive
From cold boot->fully loaded GUI
Knoppix 3.3 from CD 3mins 45secs
Mandrake 9.1-> KDE 1min 20secs
Mandrake 9.1 ->IceWM 53secs

Keep in mind the Knoppix boot was off the CDRW drive (24X at best), it would be interesting to see how it would boot off a HDD.