So if you ever wondered how OpenBSD 7.7 (most recent one at the time of writing) works on 23-year old PC, I have recorded a boot process.
CPU: AMD Athlon 馃槣 2000+ (single-core 1.6 Ghz) from 2002. i386, of course
RAM: 512 Mb DDR2
HDD: Some Western Digital 80Gb hard drive from ~2004
Fresh OpenBSD installation without any tweaks and tuning boots in 88 seconds.
There's definitely a room for improvement such as turning off libraries reordering (we should't worry about security too much on such machine). Less then a minute is easily possible.
But still, results are amazing, I think. It's a 23-year old PC! And it runs the most recent OS without any trouble. Try to do that with Windows 11 or any mainstream Linux distro.
Also, #FVWM is pretty snappy and works just fine.
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@chesheer the fact that such a secure os can still boot (and be usable) in a reasonable time is amazing.
I remember long boot times (that's why I'm still so obsessed with suspend/resume and hibernation - twenty years ago, relaunching my full workload required minutes), so it is still coherent.
I remember long boot times (that's why I'm still so obsessed with suspend/resume and hibernation - twenty years ago, relaunching my full workload required minutes), so it is still coherent.
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