FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds

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FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds
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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?

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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.

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