On Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 13:56:44 +0100, Maurice Janssen wrote:
>On Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 06:52:14 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>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'm wondering whether this would mean lots of compilation time, which
>>in this small machine might take too much...
>>
>>So it's true there's no binary way to keep the system patched, right?
>
>I've been making releases of the -stable tree since 4.0.

Forgot to mention where you can download the filesets:
ftp://ftp.z74.net/pub/OpenBSD/

A list of mirrors and a bit more info can be found at:
http://www.z74.net/openbsd.html

Maurice

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