What happens during startup?

socalgal2 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 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.

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butlike 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The hackers keep it all honest. The technology should progress at a decent rate.

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skeezyboy 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

when i look back at those machines im surprised people were willing to learn to use them.

	▲	bzzzt 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There was nothing better available at that time and there was a lot less to learn. The entire BIOS and BASIC interpreter of the ZX80 fitted in 4Kb...

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satisfice 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I want more stuff like this.

	▲	op00to 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Check out linux-insides: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/

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curtisszmania 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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bzmrgonz 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

TLDR; how can we load nixOS or netbsd on it????