-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/24/07 12:01, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Sep 23, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 09/23/07 10:13, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> My biggest problem is that there is not OS designed to be great for a >>> stand-alone old small computer. An OS that can both fit on small >>> resources, and be kept up-to-date without a separate build machine. >>> >>> Linux's target is the modern desktop and the focus is on keeping up with >>> new hardware. The BSDs keep the drivers for old hardware but patches >>> require building and that building relies on gcc which isn't optimized >>> for use on old systems. >>> >>> So I'll keep looking. >> >> NetBSD. > > Same basic problem, I think. To apply security patches you have to > recompile. To recompile, you have to use GCC, which is a resource hog. > You'd get old and die waiting for "make world" to finish on a machine > with 64 megs of RAM. > > One solution, if there are faster machines on the LAN, might be to use > distcc. But then you're not "really" stand-alone.
RSN, OBSD will be moving from gcc to pcc, which is supposed to be a *much* faster compiler. Maybe NetBSD will follow suit. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG9/FIS9HxQb37XmcRAoDFAKDugy96z639qX7Wk+wbZjOl8CZnHgCgjEkR N224tFd2eY/k6zowOADYoXI= =pYku -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
