Re: lug_: Running Linux on a Powerbook

[Paul Bagyenda]

That 10 hours is not so surprising. I once tried to compile glibc2, and after many hours gave up. We tend not to be aware, when we have the binaries, just how big some of the source is.

P.

On Thursday, Aug 28, 2003, at 09:54 Africa/Kampala, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:

Some shocking stats (e.g. compiling X and KDE takes 10 hours!!!!)

I think they should have used YelloDog instead of Gentoo but that is just me.

http://www.linuxjournal.com//article.php?sid=7012

On June 24, 2003, Linux User & Developer Expo took place in Birmingham, during which the Best Linux Hardware Award has been assigned to the SGI Altix 3000, a cluster system. It competed against the Xinit Sharp SPS440, which are powerful enterprise servers, and two notebooks, the Apple PowerBook and iBook.

This list of nominees is really strange, even though the victory went to the SGI cluster solution. 2003 has been the year during which, thanks to the 2.4 series kernels and several other projects (KDE and GNOME, for example), Linux has become a system usable even on desktop machines. This has been realized by the introduction of stable support in hardware categories users want to access for every day use, including USB devices....

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