Quoting Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Not one to defend MS but: Think again. How long does Gentoo take to
compile the whole distro from the ground up?
Yeah, to be close to an apples to apples comparison.. you'd need to
add up compiles for:
- Kernel
- Base libs (glibc at least)
- X11
- at least 1 window manager (and probably either gnome or kde since
they each have things like nautilus for GUI filesystem browsing)
- at least one editor (hey, windows has notepad and usually wordpad).
- firefox or another browser
Probably a few other utilities.
Which just shows that on a linux box, you can choose to only build
what you need.. like you can avoid most x11 stuff for a server
(especially headless).
I also recall reading jwz talking about early builds of Netscape (long
before it bloated in the 4.x releases) taking many hours.
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