FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds

Post by wink » Tue, Sep 05, 2023, 8:42 AM UTC

lproven wrote: post #47

wink wrote: post #25

Seems to be a summary/rehash of https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/freebsd-fire... - which I guess came first, and is a better article.

I wrote the article. Yes, it's a summary of that, overall, and I linked to that post in my article. That blog post is by the developer who did the work. Of course it came first: it is the source material! Did you not even notice that I linked to it and recommended reading it?!

Yes, and sorry if that sounded too confrontational. I didn't take a lot of new things from this and I know many people here read the comments first, and in this case I prefer the source material.

Post by lproven » Wed, Sep 06, 2023, 7:50 PM UTC

wink wrote: post #51

lproven wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote the article. Yes, it's a summary of that, overall, and I linked to that post in my article. That blog post is by the developer who did the work. Of course it came first: it is the source material! Did you not even notice that I linked to it and recommended reading it?!

Yes, and sorry if that sounded too confrontational. I didn't take a lot of new things from this and I know many people here read the comments first, and in this case I prefer the source material.

Fair enough.

It is a hard line to walk as a journo.

I have discovered, the hard way, that:

* _many_ people can't skim

* but they don't know that they can't

* so they misunderstand and blame the writer

* no matter if you provide links to explain everything, many won't follow any of 'em

* but you _must_ provide citations for every fact or claim

What I try to do is boil down long stuff to shorter punchier summaries, and explain harder tech stuff so non-experts can follow it.

If the reasons for something, or what it means, or why it matters, are not very obvious, I try to explain the whys and wherefores.

But when it's simple, some will complain there's not enough. If it's not simple, some will complain it's too hard. No matter how well referenced, some will argue. Even if it's my direct personal experience, some will tell me I am wrong.

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