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I remember the times when installing Gentoo was a matter of days. Compiling the kernel was a matter of hours. Sure, rustc is slower than gcc, but if you're not

I remember the times when installing Gentoo was a matter of days. Compiling the kernel was a matter of hours. Sure, rustc is slower than gcc, but if you're not constantly compiling your software over and over and over again, then the time spent in the compiler is not your primary concern. Start the compile, go to bed, let it run.

akira2501 4y ago
Gentoo.. the only reason I'd ever know or need to know that 'distcc' is a thing that exists.
- srazzaque 4y ago
  Ha! I was a wimp and did a "stage 3" install back in the day. Or was it stage 2? (shrug). Now I'm even wimpier and just use Fedora. Came across this page, on the motivations of Gentoo, a few years later: > Installing a working Linux box used to require over 550 man hours, learning a Nordic language, sacrificing a goat, wading through hundreds of pages of (purposely) inscrutable help files...Old-school Linux users were desperate to find a new way to feel superior. https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Gentoo https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Gentoo
  - speed_spread 4y ago
    It honestly wasn't bad at all. Daniel Robbins documentation for Gentoo is still one of the best doc I've ever read and I'm sure he inspired many others. IMO It's actually the greatest thing about Gentoo (along with Portage).
karolist 4y ago
Running Gentoo on 9900KS and 980 Pro SSD with 64GB of memory, kernel compiles in about 8 minutes, the longest project to build I've seen is Chromium and QT Web Engine at ~120m. It's OK but I'm tempted by the new Ryzen CPUs.
- Xylakant 4y ago
  Now run the same thing on a first gen Celeron.
  - karolist 4y ago
    I remember spending days to compile KDE fbsd port on Pentium 4, nobody sane should be running Gentoo or any from source rolling release OS on sub-optimal hardware.
    - Xylakant 4y ago
      Celeron was about the affordable option when Gentoo was released. It was just that: compiling things took time. But even when you ran redhat or suse, you sometimes needed to recompile the kernel to support the features you needed. And that took hours. But it was never a major impediment to using Linux. It was a one-time cost, like a windows install (that also took hours), or a windows update.

akira2501 4y ago

Gentoo.. the only reason I'd ever know or need to know that 'distcc' is a thing that exists.

srazzaque 4y ago
Ha! I was a wimp and did a "stage 3" install back in the day. Or was it stage 2? (shrug). Now I'm even wimpier and just use Fedora. Came across this page, on the motivations of Gentoo, a few years later: > Installing a working Linux box used to require over 550 man hours, learning a Nordic language, sacrificing a goat, wading through hundreds of pages of (purposely) inscrutable help files...Old-school Linux users were desperate to find a new way to feel superior. https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Gentoo https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Gentoo
- speed_spread 4y ago
  It honestly wasn't bad at all. Daniel Robbins documentation for Gentoo is still one of the best doc I've ever read and I'm sure he inspired many others. IMO It's actually the greatest thing about Gentoo (along with Portage).

karolist 4y ago

Running Gentoo on 9900KS and 980 Pro SSD with 64GB of memory, kernel compiles in about 8 minutes, the longest project to build I've seen is Chromium and QT Web Engine at ~120m. It's OK but I'm tempted by the new Ryzen CPUs.

Xylakant 4y ago
Now run the same thing on a first gen Celeron.
- karolist 4y ago
  I remember spending days to compile KDE fbsd port on Pentium 4, nobody sane should be running Gentoo or any from source rolling release OS on sub-optimal hardware.
  - Xylakant 4y ago
    Celeron was about the affordable option when Gentoo was released. It was just that: compiling things took time. But even when you ran redhat or suse, you sometimes needed to recompile the kernel to support the features you needed. And that took hours. But it was never a major impediment to using Linux. It was a one-time cost, like a windows install (that also took hours), or a windows update.