20 Jun
2006
20 Jun
'06
10:12 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once stated:
After watching an 800MHz P3 system build Gnome (and
its dependent packages)
on a NetBSD system, I got to wondering how usable NetBSD is on older slower
hardware, such as MicroVAX II.
If you want to build Perl or X or the kernel, what do you do? Start the
make and come back in a week?
If I was real concerned about speed, I would use a modern PC (read: over 3GHz)
and set up GCC for cross-compilation to the target architecture. Probably
not for the feight of heart though.
-spc (Or, take the box into work for a week ... let them pay for the
electricity 8-P