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
