c/linuxmemes · by carl_the_llama@lemmy.world · 2y

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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seaQueue@lemmy.world · 101 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.

carl_the_llama@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

eldain@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 2y

Distcc should be in the handbook ;) Get some computer friends to help!

rattking@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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chellomere@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Hmm you need to download some more RAM

jeena@jemmy.jeena.net · 22 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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.

JetpackJackson@feddit.de · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.

jeena@jemmy.jeena.net · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

JetpackJackson@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y

I'm already playing around with w3m but I had no idea about that table thing, sounds rough. Thanks for the links (pun unintended)

carl_the_llama@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I'm so glad that I'm reliving those experiences because I want and not because I need to.

cadekat@pawb.social · 17 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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.

magikmw@lemm.ee · 34 pts · 2y

Me: Use threads!
Single core CPU: Do I look like a loom to you?

carl_the_llama@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

devfuuu@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

DownloadMoreRam

uis@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Pentium 3? I built gentoo for pentium 3 on my i5 sandybridge for a fren.

sirico@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y

Just make sure you install gnome for that luscious logo

penquin@lemmy.kde.social · 3 pts · 2y (6 replies)

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?

ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I have a laptop with a Ryzen 4700u and gentoo with KDE compiles in a virtual machine in like 2 hours iirc

carl_the_llama@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

My IBM took 1h30m to compile vim.... (:

penquin@lemmy.kde.social · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I dont use gentoo, I was just messing around with it out of curiosity

rattking@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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penquin@lemmy.kde.social · 3 pts · 2y

So the joke doesn't run on your build then. lol

UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y

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.

RubberElectrons@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Lmfao just the pictures alone are fucking hilarious

Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (9 replies)

Is this the same actor as one of the robbers in better call Saul?