# Faster, smolBSD! Boot, Boot!

### Abstract

Virtualisation technology has gone a long way. It began as early as the 1960s
with IBM CP/CMS, and was even available as Open Source back then. On modern
hardware though, the technology exploded in the mid-2000s, and has become a new
normal in the form of containers since 2014. BSD systems have both pioneered
and lagged behind on different aspects, between innovation and catch up with
the latest industry standards. The gang of NetBSD, EdgeBSD, and smolBSD
projects is no stranger to this: coming from the desert, it is now proudly
lining up for drag races to the boot finish line, still plundering ideas and
patches all over to solve the case.