On 2019-10-03 18:33 +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote: > On 2019-10-03 10:34 +0200, Michele Bucca wrote: > > Hello There, > > I'm a university student and I currently don't have a job. I'm saving > > money because I would like to build a computer from scratch. I love > > computers and I want to learn as much as possible. I think that > > assembling a computer could be an interesting learning experience. > > > > Here's the question: What is a CPU that you would recommend? If > > possible can you include the SBU of that CPU? I currently own a laptop > > with a Celeron N2840 and the SBU is 7 minutes. Linux From Scratch has > > taught me a lot and I would like to run it as my main operating > > system. What are the CPUs that you suggest? Once I tried to compile > > bionic libc from AOSP and it caused my PC to lag terribly because of > > soong's bootstrap. it kept creating children with the same command > > line arguments that were apparently doing the same thing eating all > > my RAM (4GB) and forced my PC to use swap. Building LLVM and CLANG > > with ninja also makes my PC really slow and the process takes hours. > > It's worse than GCC from this point of view. > > If your memory is limited you may need ninja -j1 or something. By default > ninja > uses (N+1) processes (N is the number of process cores) and sometimes (N+1) > compilers can eat all of the memory. > > > I'm not an hardcore gamer, as a matter of fact I don't game very > > often. I usually run GBA emulators, NES Emulators, Minecraft and so > > on. I don't care of getting hundreds of FPS. All I need is to be able > > to watch 1080p60 Videos on youtube without lag. > > > > Compiling Speed is important to me. > > Then you need a powerful CPU and just a normal (maybe integrated) graphic > card. > A recent Intel Core i5/i7 (with a integrated graphic card) should be OK, or > use > an AMD Zen 2 with a low-end AMD graphic card (NVIDIA card sucks on desktop > Linux).
My bad, mainstream Zen 2 also has integrated graphic card so you won't need one. > > Also If you want, you can give me > > suggestions on other important pieces like the Power Supply or a > > Monitor. I don't have one yet. If I could I would go without one and > > control the PC using ssh from the LAN. Do you know how to do that? > > Sorry if I'm off-topic. > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/postlfs/openssh.html > > You should have a monitor because if you encounter some problem before > building > OpenSSH you'll have to use it. > -- > Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> > School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University > -- Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
