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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 :) -- "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 ------------------------------------------------- - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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