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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
by 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 agoNow run the same thing on a first gen Celeron.
- karolist 4y agoI 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 agoCeleron 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.