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OSEs aren’t limited to running on physical hardware, fast startup for VMs is still beneficial.
by snuxoll 7y ago
OSEs aren’t limited to running on physical hardware, fast startup for VMs is still beneficial.
- wahern 7y agoOf all my Linux VMs, Alpine Linux boots the fastest--practically instantaneously. Alpine Linux doesn't use systemd. Parallel init only helps on large, multi-service systems, but those are precisely the ones that (1) rarely reboot and (2) will have relatively long boot sequences, regardless.