On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> wrote: > I think it's because no concerted effort has been put into optimizing > the boot time on FreeBSD. I tested a stripped-down kernel on my iBook G4 > a while ago and it would boot in a couple of seconds - but that was > without any network card, USB support etc.
I think that's correct. There was a concerted effort to optimize boot time on Linux once people started to run it on netbooks, where fast booting is a big deal. FreeBSD concentrates mostly on servers, and no one really cares how long it takes a server to boot because you don't boot them very often... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
