more OpenBSD woes: recompiling the kernel

Derek Martin dmartin at ne.arris-i.com
Fri Jan 21 00:55:55 EST 2000


On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Scott Stirling wrote:

> Hee, hee.  I run Linux on my Athlon 700, 196 MB SDRAM, 13 GB 7200 RPM IDE
> drive and it takes me 2min 25sec (tops) to compile the 2.2.13 kernel with
> standard config options.  I know people love to extend the lives of boat
> anchors with Linux, but it's such a sweet OS to have on a kick-ass computer!

Pissing contest, eh?  I have a dual celeron 400 that compiles the kernel
in 2 min, 35 seconds, and only cost me $300 for the board and both CPUs.
How much extra did you pay for those 10 seconds?  EH?

hehehe  :)

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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"    "Who watches the watchmen?" 
-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347 

Derek D. Martin      |  Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive    |  A Nortel Company
derekm at mediaone.net  |  dmartin at ne.arris-i.com
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