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It's called a disk snapshot.

• mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
  I don't know about you, but I don't normally have the source code lying around on disk for: the compiler and its dependencies Any dynamically linked dependencies and whatever extra compilers they might need Other potentially necessary things like build tools and source control systems
  • microtonal 4y ago
    I am not sure if this is still the case, but the FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) CD sets and DVD used to contain the full source code of the base system and it’s easy to rebuild the system from source. BSD also works on relatively modest hardware.
    • elcritch 4y ago
      There are also https://bellard.org/tcc/ https://bellard.org/tcc/ and https://github.com/jserv/amacc https://github.com/jserv/amacc that contain mostly complete C compilers.
  • int_19h 4y ago
    It's not hard to arrange these days, if one really cares. I have a local mirror of Debian main + contrib + non-free packages, source + i386 + amd64 for every package. It's 200 Gb - a $20 SD card can handle that. How many copies would you need to make for at least one to last N years?