linuxmemes @lemmy.world carl_the_llama @lemmy.world 12 mo. ago

It's been compiling for two days straight...

For the curious ones the machine is a 2001 IBM Thinkpad T22 with 20Gb of HDD, 256 Mb of RAM and an Intel Pentium 3 @ 900MHz.

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I'm sure the Gentoo crowd will refute this in a day or two when they're finished compiling and can read it.

Edit: bro, a 2001 era Thinkpad is going to take like a month to finish building everything. You can probably cross build that system faster on your phone.
- Yes it would be faster but it's my first go at Gentoo for the base install I want to stick to the handbook. As soon as the base install is done I will see how to make my good Debian machine compile the packages for the IBM. Besides, I have time.
  
  Distcc should be in the handbook ;) Get some computer friends to help!
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- Hmm you need to download some more RAM
Back in the day, around 2005 or 2006 I did that and I had browse the internet in a text based browser for 2 days because KDE on that old machine took two days to compile.
- How did it go? I'm trying to make my website more accessible by running it through w3m, so I wonder how the sites back then did.
  
  It depends on the site, back then there were a lot of table-layouts which were quite fucked up in the text-only browser. Nowadays there are non of them which is good, but nowadays there are JavaScript only websites which don't really work well. You can install a text only browser and try it out yourself.
  
  https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ - quite sophisticated
  
  http://links.twibright.com/ - very simple
- I'm so glad that I'm reliving those experiences because I want and not because I need to.
I recently discovered emerge --jobs 8 --load-average 8 instead of just make -j8. Not gonna help much on a 900MHz pentium, but it has really sped up my build times.
- Me: Use threads!
  Single core CPU: Do I look like a loom to you?
- I have to set -j1 because of low ram. Yes I can just increase swap space to "add more RAM" but it will be swap on a 2001 HDD so it's slow as hell
  
  DownloadMoreRam
Pentium 3? I built gentoo for pentium 3 on my i5 sandybridge for a fren.
Just make sure you install gnome for that luscious logo
Lmfao just the pictures alone are fucking hilarious
I can relate. I ran gentoo for a while on a T21. I'd use my gaming pc with a q8300 to do all the compiling for it.
Serious question, how long will it take to compile the whole thing if you had a ryzen 9 maxed out or an Intel i9 or whatevet those crazy CPUs are with all top specs PC?
- I have a laptop with a Ryzen 4700u and gentoo with KDE compiles in a virtual machine in like 2 hours iirc
  
  My IBM took 1h30m to compile vim.... (:
  
  Is there a particular reason why you prefer Gentoo over other distros? Can't you run a conventional distro that doesn't need to compile? Just curious, no judgement. I know that Marcan, the dude who reverse engineered the apple M1, runs Gentoo. Always been curious as to why some folks prefer it
- I'm running gentoo on an i9 13th gen. Regular updates don't take long at all. I'm not really sure how long it would take to build the whole thing. I've never build the whole repo.Build times can vary greatly depending on how you build the package. Chromium and qtwebkit are by far the slowest packages to build. But I have lto and pgo enabled, the lto step is pretty slow and pgo causes the software to be built twice and as a joked about in my other comment, building chromium with all 32 CPU cores will eat up all 32G of ram and get OOM killed, so I build that with -j 10. so that's not helping build time. I'll get more ram eventually.
  
  So the joke doesn't run on your build then. lol
Is this the same actor as one of the robbers in better call Saul?
- Looks like Quentin Tarantino to me
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  Oh, they really look alike lol
  
  I also know Tarantino for his movies rather than his face
  
  What's he doing??
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Let me take this opportunity to tell you I use arch linux.....lol
- hilarious

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