Richard A Downing wrote these words on 09/20/05 02:10 CST: > For the record, I am still running a 200 Mhz Pentium MMX as my firewall, > and don't plan to retire it any time soon. I also run a 133Mhz laptop, > which is perfectly usable.
And you compile fortran, java, ada, whatever compilers on these machines? If not, what is your point? I use a couple of 133-166 Mhz machines as well for specific purposes, but I don't re-compile GCC on them. And that is what this discussion is about. *Re*-compiling GCC. Which is not necessary unless you have a specific need to do programming in those alternate languages. So, unless one has a need for those alternate languages, he doesn't need to re-compile GCC. And if he *is* going to be compiling programs using alternate languages, the machines you specify above in your rant, would be a poor choice for this task. Time is money. And 100 dollars to upgrade hardware to modern levels is simply a steal. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 10:29:00 up 171 days, 10:02, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 0.32, 0.45 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
