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Building from source can take hours or even days on low-end machines though, unless you can get binaries for the apps you need for your old CPUs.
by wrx100 3y ago
Building from source can take hours or even days on low-end machines though, unless you can get binaries for the apps you need for your old CPUs.
- kiwijamo 3y ago*BSD provide x86 binaries for most (if not all) packages so this is a non-issue IMHO.
- jmclnx 3y agoI do not know what this means. What would you build from source for OpenBSD and NetBSD ? Both support binary third party packages. But building on Linux will also take just as long, so really a non-issue :)
- wrx100 3y agoLast time I used NetBSD I was building my own packages (and the OS itself) from source (http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html). This was encouraged at the time. You could tweak them with various options and also contribute to the effort (https://www.pkgsrc.org/wip/ https://www.pkgsrc.org/wip/). I did install pkgsrc on Ubuntu to get around snap but building anything took such a long time even on modern hardware. But that was building all the dependencies from scratch. After that it should take less time.