On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm just looking at how openbsd works to see if it suits my needs.  I
> have a small old box (piii celeron @797 MHz & 32KB $, with 512 MB
> ram), and in my experience compiling just the linux kernel takes ~4
> hrs, and compiling gcc/g++ takes ~24 hrs...
>
> I read in the documentation that if there are fixes, they come through
> patches, and then to keep things simple, the easiest "fastest" way is
> to keep the whole stable source tree up to date with patches, which
> imply initial compilation + recompiling any time a patch arise...

I don't recall an openbsd patch ever requiring a gcc rebuild, and a
kernel build should take about 20 minutes on such a machine (the first
time).

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