On: 'Be' is nice, end of story

[jandrese]

It's easy to boot quickly when you have very little supported hardware to look for. I remember compiling custom FreeBSD kernels with only the hardware on my box and racing my roommate's BeBox to login prompt. Then he would start playing a bunch of movies at once and I'd open up Netscape.

[a-dub → jandrese]

ironically, freebsd was late to the multiprocessor party, with a global kernel mode lock that existed well into the mid-2000s.