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Re: new debian packages - what iss so good about Unix/X



On Fri, 23 May 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:

> On Fri, 23 May 1997, Alexander Indenbaum wrote:

> starting at RH 4.2, it can be installed over Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, PLIP and
> maybe even TokenRing (didn't check), with FTP, NFS or SMB (!)

Well, then I'll try the PPP upgrade.
Is it possible?

> > And third of all as I said it is wonderfull way to stay -current or
> > -stable. I once installed FreeBSD and since than I synchronize my source 
> > code from cron every night, and 'make world' every friday night.
> 
> excuse me for interrupting your FreeBSD trip here... doesn't "make world"
> take a few days? I remember reading somewhere that "make world" is used
> many times to test a system's speed, it used to take 2.5 days on old
> systems, and modern Pentiums finish it in slightly less than 24 hours...
> is this a sort of thing that's really necessary? seems weird to me...
>

On my p166 + 32M it takes about 4 hours.
On modern PPro systems about    1 hour.

BTW 'make world' you can do on background and it almost 
do not need any system resources. On my single user system
with about 10 xterms and couple of Netscapes load during
'make world'  stays less then 1. So it could be done also 
on productive systems, no reboot needed.

I personally do 'make world' out of cron at nights so I 
almost do not feel it.

BTW when I started to use Linux, kernel compilation took about 45 min
on my system and I had to exit all my application during it.
Now it takes 6 min...
So probably when kernel compilation lasted 45 min, make world took 30
hours. At least numbers fit.

  Alexander Indenbaum
  baum@actcom.co.il



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