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      You kid and aren’t wrong, but this was a huge metric when I was first getting into Linux. I remember seeing it prodominantly posted on Ubuntu’s site … I wonder which version… I think 4 or 6?

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        Funny how the biggest metrics back then were boot time and uptime.

        " I haven’t rebooted in 5 years, but I’ll be damned if it takes longer than 5 seconds!"

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      The more interesting story here is that in 2023, FreeBSD was still using bubblesort. They made it go 100 times faster than a really slow thing, and we’ve known it’s slow for a long time.