What happens during startup?(eclecticlight.co)
47 points by colinprince 4 days ago | 4 comments
socalgal2 1 hour ago
> What happens during startup?

Too gawd damn much! Go back to an Apple II, An Atari 800, A Sinclare ZX80, You turn them on. They execute a few instructions and then are ready to use. Contrast to my linux boxes that are a million times faster but takes ~2 minutes until I can use them.

Yea, I know, things have changed for reasons

Still... It's sad to me how long things take to get started and all of those 100s and 1000s of layer are each full of vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered.

satisfice 7 hours ago
I want more stuff like this.
op00to 7 hours ago
I used to use “describe the Linux boot process” as an interview question. It was really fun to see what different people saw was important to mention, and a great way to judge people’s depth.
reader9274 2 hours ago
curtisszmania 6 hours ago
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bzmrgonz 7 hours ago
TLDR; how can we load nixOS or netbsd on it????