For the curious ones the machine is a 2001 IBM Thinkpad T22 with 20Gb of HDD, 256 Mb of RAM and an Intel Pentium 3 @ 900MHz.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    951·
    10 months ago

    I’m sure the Gentoo crowd will refute this in a day or two when they’re finished compiling and can read it.

    Edit: bro, a 2001 era Thinkpad is going to take like a month to finish building everything. You can probably cross build that system faster on your phone.

    • carl_the_llama@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      10 months ago

      Yes it would be faster but it’s my first go at Gentoo for the base install I want to stick to the handbook. As soon as the base install is done I will see how to make my good Debian machine compile the packages for the IBM. Besides, I have time.

  • cadekat@pawb.social
    17·
    10 months ago

    I recently discovered emerge --jobs 8 --load-average 8 instead of just make -j8. Not gonna help much on a 900MHz pentium, but it has really sped up my build times.

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
    14·
    10 months ago

    Back in the day, around 2005 or 2006 I did that and I had browse the internet in a text based browser for 2 days because KDE on that old machine took two days to compile.

    • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
      4·
      10 months ago

      How did it go? I’m trying to make my website more accessible by running it through w3m, so I wonder how the sites back then did.

      • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
        1·
        10 months ago

        It depends on the site, back then there were a lot of table-layouts which were quite fucked up in the text-only browser. Nowadays there are non of them which is good, but nowadays there are JavaScript only websites which don’t really work well. You can install a text only browser and try it out yourself.

        • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
          1·
          10 months ago

          I’m already playing around with w3m but I had no idea about that table thing, sounds rough. Thanks for the links (pun unintended)

  • uis@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 months ago

    Pentium 3? I built gentoo for pentium 3 on my i5 sandybridge for a fren.

  • UntouchedWagons@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I can relate. I ran gentoo for a while on a T21. I’d use my gaming pc with a q8300 to do all the compiling for it.

  • penquin@lemmy.kde.social
    3·
    10 months ago

    Serious question, how long will it take to compile the whole thing if you had a ryzen 9 maxed out or an Intel i9 or whatevet those crazy CPUs are with all top specs PC?