On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:50:30PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
> firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
> bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
> on it. Now it is running Debian and MAN is it S-L-O-W.
[snip!]
> I guess I won't be compiling any kernels on that box ... well, maybe ONE
> just to see how long it takes.
>
> :)
If memory serves, my first linux box, a 386SX-16 with 4MB took about 5
hours to compile 1.0.9.
Cheers,
Pann
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