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I believe NetBSD also holds the record for the fastest kernel boot time for a general purpose operating system -- I held this record with FreeBSD with the system booting in about 23 ms but Emile got NetBSD down to 15 ms IIRC and I've been too busy to work on FreeBSD/Firecracker lately.

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Interesting! Both 23ms and 15ms are lightning fast. Have you written about it anywhere in more detail?

I gave a talk about FreeBSD on Firecracker at bsdcan a few years ago. Sorry I'm on my phone just before an orchestra concert so I can't give you a link but if you Google "BSDCan Colin Percival Firecracker" you should find it on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT3cdeuRTzs - Porting FreeBSD to Firecracker by:Colin Percival?

Yup that's the one.

I watched that video when it was published, and really enjoyed it, as well as most of the BSDCan presentations. I subscribed to the YouTube channel, but there any other similar conventions that you would recommend? I've found that the Chaos Communication Congress presentations are hit and miss, but BSDCan presentations are quite regularly succinct and entertaining.

EuroBSDCon is very similar, for obvious reasons.

Thanks, I subscribed.

https://smolbsd.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582758

There was a thread about it, a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582758

Oooh, that got me curious! I will give this a try.

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