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Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi... by deivid on Friday April 17, 2026 @02:44PM (#47809207)
With this approach I managed to get to sub-10ms start (to pid1), if you can accept a few constraints there's plenty of room!

Though my version was only tested on Linux hosts

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Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi... by binsquare on Friday April 17, 2026 @03:13PM (#47809485)
would be interested to see how you do it, how can I connect with you - emotionally?
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Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi... by threecheese on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:17PM (#47810665)
Start with booze; always works :)
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Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi... by wgjordan on Saturday April 18, 2026 @05:08AM (#47814399)
https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/minimizing-linux-boot-times/
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