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It's easy to boot quickly when you have very little supported hardware to look for. I remember compiling custom FreeBSD kernels with only the hardware on my bo
by jandrese 4y ago
It's easy to boot quickly when you have very little supported hardware to look for. I remember compiling custom FreeBSD kernels with only the hardware on my box and racing my roommate's BeBox to login prompt. Then he would start playing a bunch of movies at once and I'd open up Netscape.
- a-dub 4y agoironically, freebsd was late to the multiprocessor party, with a global kernel mode lock that existed well into the mid-2000s.