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My memory was spending as much time learning on the different options as anything else. Though, I think most of my memory was all of the config for FreeBSD. C
by taeric 3y ago
My memory was spending as much time learning on the different options as anything else. Though, I think most of my memory was all of the config for FreeBSD. Compiling Firefox was the beast that I remember. Only thing I still compile is Emacs, and that is silly fast on modern computers.
Really, the speed of compilation is such that I understand why so many source distribution methods are as popular as they are now. Feels funny to have come to that point so effectively.
- anonymousiam 3y agoThe big break (for me) in configuring the options was the very welcome addition of "make menuconfig" to replace the original "make config". As the number of supported filesystems/drivers/options increased, it could take more than an hour to get through a "make config". I haven't built my own kernel for more than 15 years, but I probably built more than a dozen before that, each of them re-compiled upon every new release (going back to 0.98).