FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds
FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds
On AWS Firecracker – but there are other new micro-VM engines around, too
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Yeah, that was the reason holding me back. It was the boot up time.
You kid and aren't wrong, but this was a huge metric when I was first getting into Linux. I remember seeing it prodominantly posted on Ubuntu's site ... I wonder which version... I think 4 or 6?
Funny how the biggest metrics back then were boot time and uptime.
" I haven't rebooted in 5 years, but I'll be damned if it takes longer than 5 seconds!"
Your local power plant approves of this mesaage!
The more interesting story here is that in 2023, FreeBSD was still using bubblesort. They made it go 100 times faster than a really slow thing, and we've known it's slow for a long time.